I'm trying to get a word between <> . For example:
Text: "Joao <[email protected]>"
My regex should catch [email protected] , but it's catching <[email protected]>
The regex I am using is <(.*?)> .
Does anyone know how to remove <> ?
Does anyone know how to remove < >?
Yes, you have to escape them.
In java ...
public static void main(String[] args) {
String texto = "Joao <[email protected]>";
String regex = "\<(?<meuGrupo>.*?)\>";
String retorno = "";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex,Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);;
Matcher comparator = pattern.matcher(texto);
if (comparator.find(0)){
retorno = comparator.group("meuGrupo");
}
System.out.println(retorno);
}
As the author mentioned using Java, there is an alternative answer with substring , for anyone who might be interested:
mail = mail.substring(mail.indexOf("<")+1,mail.indexOf(">"));
See working at IDEONE .
You can use an expression that reads all characters other than > :
\<([^\>]+)\>
A JSFiddle showing an example with this regex: link . Note that you do not have to escape < and > , but I usually escape all special characters to avoid confusion.
For me it worked using the regular expression <(.*)> .
Using link - testing this regular expression with Joao <[email protected]> , what was captured was just [email protected] .