java regex matcher example
import java.util.regex.Pattern; import java.util.regex.Matcher; public class MatcherExample { public static void main(String[] args) { String text = "This is the text to be searched " + "for occurrences of the http:// pattern."; String patternString = ".*http://.*"; Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternString); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text); boolean matches = matcher.matches(); int count = 0; while(matcher.find()) { count++; System.out.println("found: " + count + " : " + matcher.start() + " - " + matcher.end()); } } }