Java String Manipulation: extracting integer and float from string based on pattern

Question

I have the following two possible contents of a String. Obviously the amounts always vary and I would like to extract the key information and

Case 0:   pri         


        

Answer 1

That looks like a job for regex:

String pricesString = "10+: $1.46 100+: $0.16 500+: $0.04";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(\\d+)\\+: \\$(\\d\\.\\d\\d)");
Matcher m = p.matcher(pricesString);
while (m.find()) {
    Intger.parseInt(m.group(1));
    Double.parseDouble(m.group(2));
}

You can choose between the 3 cases by a simple .length() check. The code above is for the last case. The rest is eaiser