again, little problem with regex

So I have a little problem

Here's my text

AFTER_2011/03/01 GREATER_2004_NOT

I want AFTER and GREATER, so i have the following regex:

[A-Z]{2,}\\B

At first its okay and I get AFTER, but the second time i get the entire line. i tried add '?' before and after to turn it reluctant, also i tried \G to turn it global. nothing works for me. in other times i used regex it has automatically started searching where last stopped, but not this time. any suggestions?

Edit: So here is the code i wrote:

 private void checkFilterNames(String[] sections){

    _validityPatt = Pattern.compile("[A-Z]{2,}\\B");
    boolean foundName;

    for (int i=0; i<sections.length; i++){  
        _checker = _validityPatt.matcher(sections[i]);
        _checker.find();
        String currentName = sections[i].substring(1, _check开发者_JAVA技巧er.end());
        while (!currentName.equals("ACTION")){
            foundName = false;
            System.out.println("checking "+currentName);
            for (int k=0; k<FilterManager.getNames().length; k++){
                if (currentName.equals(FilterManager.getNames()[k])){
                    foundName = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (!foundName){
                System.out.println("no such FILTER/ACTION/ORDER "+currentName);
                System.exit(-1);
            }
            _checker.find();
            currentName = sections[i].substring(1, _checker.end());
        }

    }

So this is the code. I want to isolate AFTER and then GREATER. I had a little mistake before the first loop i get 'AFTER' and then i get 'AFTER_2011/03/01 GREATER'

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currentName = sections[i].substring(1, _checker.end());

should be:

currentName = sections[i].substring(_checker.start(), _checker.end());

I tested your regex, it is fine. I think the reason you are getting the wrong string is because you're always getting substring from index of 1.

First iteration (assuming 1 based index):

• start==1, end==6 .substring(1, end)
• is 'AFTER' so you're good

Second iteration

• start==18, end==25
• .substring(1, end) is 'AFTER_2011/03/01 GREATER' so end index is good, but start index is not
• .substring(start, end) is 'GREATER', this is what you want I believe

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Not very clear. You could try a regex like this

([A-Z]{2,})_