extracting a number from a string in Java

Question

hi all
I have a string with a number inside and I want to retrieve that number. for example if I have a string "bla bla 45 bla bla" I want to get the number 45. I have searched a bit and found out that this code should make the work

Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("\\d+").matcher("bla bla 45 bla bla");
if(matcher.matches())
    String result = matcher.group();

but it doesn't :(
probably the problem is that "\d+" regular expression is converted to "^\d+$" and so the matcher doesn't matches the number inside the text.
Any ideas.

Answer 1

You should use matcher.find() instead.

Answer 2

Here's an example on how to use matcher.find()

 Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("\\d+").matcher("bla bla 45 bla 22 bla");
 while(matcher.find()) {
     System.out.println(matcher.group());
 }

This will output

45
22