This works:
String rex = "^\\d+\\.\\s\\p{Lu}+.*";
System.out.println("1. PTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// true
System.out.println(". PTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// false, missing leading digit
System.out.println("1.PTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// false, missing space after .
System.out.println("1. xPTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// false, lower case letter before the upper case letters
Breaking it down:
^= Start of string\d+= One or more digits (the\is escaped because it's in a string, hence\\)\.= A literal.(or your original[.]is fine) (again, escaped in the string)\s= One whitespace char (no need for the{1}after it) (I'll stop mentioning the escapes now)\p{Lu}+= One or more upper case letters (using the proper Unicode escape — thank you, tchrist, for pointing this out in your comment below. In English terms, the equivalent would be[A-Z]+).*= Anything else
See the documentation here for details.
You only need the .* at the end if you're using a method like String#match (above) that will try to match the entire string.
This works:
String rex = "^\\d+\\.\\s\\p{Lu}+.*";
System.out.println("1. PTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// true
System.out.println(". PTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// false, missing leading digit
System.out.println("1.PTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// false, missing space after .
System.out.println("1. xPTYU fmmflksfkslfsm".matches(rex));
// false, lower case letter before the upper case letters
Breaking it down:
^= Start of string\d+= One or more digits (the\is escaped because it's in a string, hence\\)\.= A literal.(or your original[.]is fine) (again, escaped in the string)\s= One whitespace char (no need for the{1}after it) (I'll stop mentioning the escapes now)\p{Lu}+= One or more upper case letters (using the proper Unicode escape — thank you, tchrist, for pointing this out in your comment below. In English terms, the equivalent would be[A-Z]+).*= Anything else
See the documentation here for details.
You only need the .* at the end if you're using a method like String#match (above) that will try to match the entire string.
It depends which method are you using. I think it will work if you use Matcher.find(). It will not work if you are using Matcher.matches() because match works on whole line. If you are using matches() fix your pattern as following:
^\d+\.\s{1}[A-Z]+.*
(pay attention on trailing .*)
And I'd also use \. instead of [.]. It is more readable.
(answer changed after OP added more details)
Your string
String inputText = "\1f\1e\1d\02002868BF03030000000000000000S023\1f\1e\1d\03\0d";
Doesn't actually contains any \ literals because according to Java Language Specification in section 3.10.6. Escape Sequences for Character and String Literals \xxx will be interpreted as character indexed in Unicode Table with octal (base/radix 8) value represented by xxx part.
Example \123 = 1*82 + 2*81 + 3*80 = 1*64 + 2*8 + 3*1 = 64+16+3 = 83 which represents character S
If string you presented in your question is written exactly the same in your text file then you should write it as
String inputText = "\\1f\\1e\\1d\\02002868BF03030000000000000000S023\\1f\\1e\\1d\\03\\0d";
(with escaped \ which now will represent literal).
(older version of my answer)
It is hard to tell what exactly you did wrong without seeing your code. You should be able to find at least \1, \1, \1, \0 since your regex can match one \ and one hexadecimal character placed after it.
Anyway this is how you can find results you mentioned in question:
String text = "\\1f\\1e\\1d\\020028";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\\\[a-fA-F0-9]{2}");
// ^^^--we want to find two hexadecimal
// characters after \
Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
while (m.find())
System.out.println(m.group());
Output:
\1f
\1e
\1d
\02
You need to read the file properly and replace '\' characters with '\\'. Assume that there is file called test_file in your project with this content:
\1f\1e\1d\02002868BF03030000000000000000S023\1f\1e\1d\03\0d
Here is the code to read the file and extract values:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
Test t = new Test();
t.test();
}
public void test() throws IOException {
BufferedReader br =
new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
getClass().getResourceAsStream("/test_file.txt"), "UTF-8"));
String inputText;
while ((inputText = br.readLine()) != null) {
inputText = inputText.replace("\\", "\\\\");
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\\\[a-fA-F0-9]{2}");
Matcher match = pattern.matcher(inputText);
while (match.find()) {
System.out.println(match.group());
}
}
}