Why is this exception thrown when trying to match this regex in Java?
- by Scott Ferguson
I'm trying to match a specific string out of a an HTML document and have this regex pattern to grab it:
Pattern somePattern = Pattern.compile("var json = ({\"r\":\"^d1\".*});");
However when I try to hit that code at runtime, I get this error:
FATAL EXCEPTION: Timer-0
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Syntax error U_REGEX_RULE_SYNTAX near index 13:
var json = ({"r":"^d1".*});
^
at com.ibm.icu4jni.regex.NativeRegEx.open(Native Method)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compileImpl(Pattern.java:383)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:341)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:317)
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
