String finding and return

[mikedikta]

Hi, I'm not a java programmer, but I need some help.

could anyone write a method take looks like this:



public String getMatchedString(String text, String start, String end)


the method should recive a string with a text, and the other parameters (start and end) are two string that it must find in the text, when he finds a String that starts with "start" and ends with "end" it should return a string with what is between them.

exemple:

getMatchedString("Name: John Rambo - Age: 21", "Name:" , "- Age: 21")

should return "John Rambo"

got it?

thanks for just reading

[Khalid Ali]

Its your lucky day..:-) enjoy....

public String getMatchedString(String strToSearchFrom, String strStartsWith, String strEndsWith) {
        String result=null;
        if(strToSearchFrom.startsWith(strStartsWith) && strToSearchFrom.endsWith(strEndsWith)){
            return strToSearchFrom.substring(
                    strToSearchFrom.indexOf(strStartsWith)+strStartsWith.length(),
                    strToSearchFrom.indexOf(strEndsWith));
        }
        return result;
    } 

[mikedikta]

thanks mate.