I'm trying to read a text file, search for all valid IP addresses and print them. The file is read using the Scanner class and the entire contents of the file are stored in a string; then I use Java's util.regex Pattern and Matcher to search for all valid IP addresses and print them one by one. This is the code I've written so far:
String inp ="";
File file = new File("C:\\input.txt");
try {
Scanner scan = new Scanner(file);
while(scan.hasNextLine()) {
inp += scan.nextLine() + " ";
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException f) {
f.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("File inp string is "+inp);
Pattern pattern =
Pattern.compile("^(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)");
Matcher match = pattern.matcher(inp);
while(match.find()) {
System.out.println("IP found: "+match.group());
}
The contents of the file are the following:
127.0.0.1 1:00 AM
User entered host
255.1.2.2 11:00 PM
127.0.0.1 1:00 AM
The output I get is:
File inp string is 127.0.0.1 1:00 AM User entered host 255.1.2.2 11:00 PM 127.0.0.1 1:00 AM
IP found: 127.0.0.1
That's the only IP I get from the input string. I don't understand why the other 3 IP's are ignored by the pattern matcher. Can anyone help?