Matching and extracting data in string

Question

Can someone help me (and change the title, I couldn't think of one)? I need to look for a command with Pircbot and I need it to be able to read a command like this:

!online user

And I need to do it with this:

something.equalsIgnoreCase("online");

I have no idea how to do it with it being able to read user with that and possibly export it to a variable? Can anyone help?

Sorry if it's really confusing.

Answer 1

You could use Scanner class in java.

Answer 2

This is a perfect case for a regular expression pattern.

Do something like

Pattern onlinePattern = Pattern.compile("online\\s(\\S)+(\\s|$)");
Matcher m = onlinePattern.matcher(stringToTest);
if (m.find()){
  String username = m.group(1);
  //... do your stuff here
}