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how to get data between quotes in java?

I have this lines of text the number of quotes could change like: 

Here just one "comillas"
But I also could have more "mas" values in "comillas" and that "is" the "trick"
I was thinking in a method that return "a" list of "words" that "are" between "comillas"

How I obtain the data between the quotes?

The result should be:

comillas
mas, comillas, trick
a, words, are, comillas

Solution

  • You can use a regular expression to fish out this sort of information. 

    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\"([^\"]*)\"");
Matcher m = p.matcher(line);
while (m.find()) {
  System.out.println(m.group(1));
}

    This example assumes that the language of the line being parsed doesn't support escape sequences for double-quotes within string literals, contain strings that span multiple "lines", or support other delimiters for strings like a single-quote.