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What is the best way to get numbers from strings?

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Hi all I have a single address sentence with housenumber in it, i want to capture just the number(s) in it. What is the best way to do this? Example: Streetname 14 City What I thought was: a) replace all leters with '' and trim it after it, and parse it to integer? Should I do this by using a regex [A-Za-z] for it? b) find just the numbers consisting from 1,2 or 3 non alphatic characters 0-9?

asked 2017-02-22

Rapido

1 answers

Wilfried Mulder · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22

Hi Enzo, you can use the RegexReplaceAll java action from the community commons module. This java action performs a regular expression. If you use the regular expression '[^0-9]+' then all numbers are extracted from the string.