MC+A » Regular Expression http://www.mcplusa.com Connecting Business Intellingence Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:23:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Parsing a URL Encoded String for the parameter (match between two words) http://www.mcplusa.com/blog/2009/12/parsing-a-url-encoded-string-for-the-parameter/ http://www.mcplusa.com/blog/2009/12/parsing-a-url-encoded-string-for-the-parameter/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:37:06 +0000 Michael http://www.mcplusa.com/blog/2009/12/parsing-a-url-encoded-string-for-the-parameter/ I spent the last hour trying to find a regular expression to parse a url that was url-encoded or to match between two words.  Java was having a difficult time retrieving the url since it was parameter=something& but rather proxystylesheet%3Ddefault_frontend%26.  The expression is:

(?<=proxystylesheet%3D).*?(?=%26)

Where proxystylesheet is the parameter you are looking for.  This won’t find the value if it is at the end of the line but in my case, that is unnecessary.

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