How to get a numeric value from a webelement in Selenium Webdriver (Java)

Question

 <div> id: 123456 has been successfully submitted. <br/> <br/> </div> 

In the above code, I am able to retrieve the whole text. But I need to retrieve the id value which is 123456 here and store it in an excel sheet. Help me in retrieving the numeric value?

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

To extract the numeric value from your string:

int i = Integer.parseInt(html.replaceAll("\\D", ""));

The regex \\D means "any non-digit", and replaceAll() is deleting all non-digits by replacing them with nothing.