Matcher: groupCount()

/*
Group 0: 1
Group 1: 1
Group 2: null
Group 3: null
Group 0: 2
Group 1: 2
Group 2: null
Group 3: null
Group 0: 3
Group 1: 3
Group 2: null
Group 3: null
Group 0: 4.5
Group 1: 4.5
Group 2: .5
Group 3: null
*/
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class MainClass {

public static void main(String[] av) {
String regEx = “[+|-]?(\\d+(\\.\\d*)?)|(\\.\\d+)”;
String str = “a b c d e 1 2 3 4.5 “;
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regEx);
Matcher m = pattern.matcher(str);
while(m.find()) {
for(int i = 0; i<=m.groupCount() ; i++) {
System.out.println(“Group ” + i + “: ” + m.group(i)); // Group i substring
}
}
}

}

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