Re: Tricky regex question

On Jan 31, 10:54 am, Juan Singh <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I need to split words from a sentence that are more than 2 letters. An
example sentence is:

This is "very" 'tricky'. I won't be able see it.

I came up with the following regex, but it breaks the word [won't] and I
only get the part that is before the single quote.

\b[a-zA-Z]{2,}+\b

My objective is to extract the following words from the example sentence
above.

This, very, tricky, won't, able

Thanks.
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Pattern longword = Pattern.compile("\\w+('?\\w){2,}");
String input = "This is \"very\" 'tricky'. I won't be able see
it.";
Matcher matcher = longword.matcher(input);
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group());
}
}
}

.

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