Regular expression not finding a match

Question

I am trying to match the word Salvage in this string, but the code is not picking it up. Where am I going wrong?

//String to match
String titleString = "<td><i><a href="/page/Vengeance2" title="Salary">Salvage</a></i></td>";

System.out.println(titleString);

//Template
String template = ">(.*)</a>";

//
Pattern p=Pattern.compile(template);
Matcher matcher = p.matcher(titleString);

System.out.println(matcher.group(1));

Answer 1

Try to put a matcher.find() just before the matcher.group(1) .

The group takes the "Group from the last match". But as there was no match yet, you found nothing.