Java Parsing of a String

Question

I have a string like this:

String unparsed = "[thing.1][thin2g]"

I want to turn it into

"thing.1"
"thin2g"

Been trying for a while with regex expressions but nothing. Any thoughts? Thanks!

EDIT:

Tried:

String unparsed = "[thing.1][thin2g]"
String substring = unparsed.substring(1,unparsed.length - 1)
substring.replace("][","`")
String[] split = substring.split('`')
for(int i=0;i<split.length;i++)
{
   System.out.println(split[i])
}

But this seems kinda heavy, was looking for something more elegant

Show us what you tried. Use the Pattern class.

Sotirios Delimanolis
– Sotirios Delimanolis

2013-08-14 01:42:50 +00:00
Commented Aug 14, 2013 at 1:42 — Sotirios Delimanolis
– Sotirios Delimanolis, Commented Aug 14, 2013 at 1:42

Cao Dongping · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-14 02:08:00Z

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String unparsed = "[thing.1][thin2g]";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\[(.*?)\\]");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(unparsed);
while(matcher.find()){
    System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
}

My regex is not good. But it does parse the string into what you want.

edited Aug 14, 2013 at 2:08

answered Aug 14, 2013 at 2:00

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SSpoke · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-14 01:59:21Z

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\[\s*\w.*?\]

I never use regular expressions before but this one should work

answered Aug 14, 2013 at 1:59

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