Using String "Matches" with Variable

[billatl]

Hello,

I'm trying to use matches to find a string within a string, but running into trouble using it with a variable. Concatenating the string doesn't seem to be the answer - what is the correct syntax?

String queryString = request.getQueryString();
for(String value: mvalues ) {
  if (value.matches("(?i).*" + queryString + ".*")) {
	out.println(value + " is a match!");  
  }  
}

[billatl]

No one uses matches with a variable?

[Fou-Lu]

I'm not sure I follow you here.
That above will work fine.

PHP Code:

String str = "anything /SOMETHING/ done";
String queryString = "/something/";
String[] a = str.split(" ");
for (String s : a)
{
    if (s.matches("(?i).*" + queryString + ".*"))
    {
        System.out.println(s + " is a match.");
    }
} 


Will result in:

/SOMETHING/ is a match

So since the structure works, it's a problem with the pattern not matching the data.

[billatl]

Fou-Lu,

Thanks, you are correct in that it's the pattern; it seems the matches isn't finding the substring anywhere. For example, the 1st works - but teh second doesn't:

String str = "anything /SOMETHING/ done";
String tstr = "something";

if (tstr.matches("(?i).*/something/.*")) {
        out.println(tstr + " text found.");
    } 

if (tstr.matches("(?i).*anything /SOMETHING/ done.*")) {
    out.println(tstr + " text found.");
}

In your example, you used the split to make it work - I can't do so for my purposes because the value I'm searching through won't have any spaces.

Can you tell what's wrong with the matching regex?

[Fou-Lu]

I split mine up simply so I'd have an input loop to work with as you had in your original as well.
What are you matching and pattern you are attempting to match with?