regex - How to crop multiple text from String in Java? -

i want crop portion of string:

" test [abc:123456] sting multiple properties [abc:98765] ..." 

so in result want crop string between "[ ]". {here abc:12345 , abc:98765} note there can n number of property. best way result.

public static void main(string[] args) {         string input = "test bla [abc56465:asd] asdasdqwd [def:345]";         pattern pattern = pattern.compile("\\[(.*?)\\]");         matcher match = pattern.matcher(input);         while(match.find()){             system.out.println(match.group());         }     } 

follow tutorials niels. solution. output without "[ ]" replace:

system.out.println(match.group()); 

with:

system.out.println(match.group(1)); 

as mentioned in comments.