I would like to remove references from HTML. I used Pattern and Matcher classes and I got an unexpected result. I try to resume it with the following code: String regex = "(?i) (.*) "; String target = " "; String text = "head "+target+" tail"; Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text); assertEquals(true, matcher.find()); assertEquals(1, matcher.groupCount()); assertEquals(target, matcher.group(1)); The target is found only if it has no closing angular bracket or if the regex doesn't contain angular brackets (as in "(?i)aaa(.*)bbb" ).    More>>

			

			String regex = "(?i)
			(.*)
			";
			

			String target = "
			";
			

			String text = "head
			"+target+"
			tail";
			

			

			Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
			

			Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
			

			

			assertEquals(true, matcher.find());
			

			assertEquals(1, matcher.groupCount());
			

			assertEquals(target, matcher.group(1));