How to extract numbers from a string and get an array of ints?

Question

I have a String variable (basically an English sentence with an unspecified number of numbers) and I\'d like to extract all the numbers into an array of integers. I was wond

Answer 1

If you want to exclude numbers that are contained within words, such as bar1 or aa1bb, then add word boundaries \b to any of the regex based answers. For example:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\b-?\\d+\\b");
Matcher m = p.matcher("9There 9are more9 th9an -2 and less than 12 numbers here9");
while (m.find()) {
  System.out.println(m.group());
}

displays:

2
12