How to extract a substring using regex

Question

I have a string that has two single quotes in it, the \' character. In between the single quotes is the data I want.

How can I write a regex to extract

Answer 1

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(".*'([^']*)'.*");
        String mydata = "some string with 'the data i want' inside";

        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(mydata);
        if(matcher.matches()) {
            System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
        }

    }
}

Answer 2

Some how the group(1) didnt work for me. I used group(0) to find the url version.

Pattern urlVersionPattern = Pattern.compile("\\/v[0-9][a-z]{0,1}\\/");
Matcher m = urlVersionPattern.matcher(url);
if (m.find()) { 
    return StringUtils.substringBetween(m.group(0), "/", "/");
}
return "v0";