Scala capture group using regex

Here's an example of how you can access group(1) of each match:

val string = "one493two483three"
val pattern = """two(\d+)three""".r
pattern.findAllIn(string).matchData foreach {
   m => println(m.group(1))
}

This prints "483" (as seen on ideone.com).

The lookaround option

Depending on the complexity of the pattern, you can also use lookarounds to only match the portion you want. It'll look something like this:

val string = "one493two483three"
val pattern = """(?<=two)\d+(?=three)""".r
pattern.findAllIn(string).foreach(println)

The above also prints "483" (as seen on ideone.com).

References

regular-expressions.info/Lookarounds

val string = "one493two483three"
val pattern = """.*two(\d+)three.*""".r

string match {
  case pattern(a483) => println(a483) //matched group(1) assigned to variable a483
  case _ => // no match
}

Tags:

String

Regex

Scala

Capturing Group

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