How to Extract a Value from string Using Regular Expressions

Question

I have the following String :

XYZ,132917057937901,150617,051244,+12.345555,+73.179481,0,153,45,11,1,3,000,00,0.0,9.23,7.40,24.74,0.0,0,0.90,0,0,345,1374,108

Now i want to extract value at the 16th position 9.23 and 17th position 7.40.

This string is fixed with their position.

How can i get value at 16th and 17th position ?

Answer 1

Use String.split instead of regex:

String[] split = input.split(',');
String pos16 = split[15];

In case you do want to use regex, match using this and get groups 1 and 2:

Matcher m = Pattern.compile("(?:[^,]*,){15}([^,]*),([^,]*)").matcher(input);
m.find();
String pos16 = m.group(1);