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copied!<p>Assuming that you want to extract the text between the word "Fruits" and the word "Sports" you could use a regular expression with a <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#cg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">capturing group</a>. This way, if a string matches then you still have to extract the <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html#group(int)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">group</a> that contains the text that you want.</p> <p>For example:</p> <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>Pattern p = Pattern.compile("Fruits(.*?)Sports", Pattern.DOTALL); // The string "Fruits" ------^ ^ ^ ^ // Capture everything in between --^ ^ ^ // The string "Sports" -----------------^ ^ // This tells the regex to treat newlines ^ // like normal characters ---------------------^ </code></pre> <p>See the <a href="http://regexplained.co.uk/#eyJwYXR0ZXJuIjoiRnJ1aXRzKC4qPylTcG9ydHMifQ==" rel="nofollow noreferrer">railroad diagram</a> below:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8xkEU.png" alt="a railroad diagram of the image"></p> <p>Alternatively, you can use a more advanced regular expression using <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#special" rel="nofollow noreferrer">positive lookahead and lookbehinds</a>. This means that you can make your regular expression still look for text between the words "Fruit" and "Sports" but not consider those strings themselves as part of the match.</p> <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?<!Fruits).*?(?=Sports)", Pattern.DOTALL); </code></pre>

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