Android split Text / Numbers from SMS string

Question

im making a gps tracking program and i receive an sms message with the following content

smsMessage="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.396068,13.45201,17 phone is outside the area"

Could anybody be so kind and tell me how i can split out only the needed longitude and the latitude from the sms string ?

thanx in advance

what's your expected output? – Avinash Raj Mar 02 '15 at 01:51 — Avinash Raj, Mar 02 '15 at 01:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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You need regular expression to get your latitude and longitude from the given text. Here it is:

[-+]?([1-8]?\d(\.\d+)?|90(\.0+)?),\s*[-+]?(180(\.0+)?|((1[0-7]\d)|([1-9]?\d))(\.\d+)?)

Matches

+90.0, -127.554334 45, 180
-90, -180
-90.000, -180.0000
+90, +180
47.1231231, 179.99999999

Doesn't Match

-90., -180.
+90.1, -100.111
-91, 123.456
045, 180

Source: Regular expression for matching latitude/longitude coordinates?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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answered Mar 02 '15 at 01:55

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hi im not very familiar with regular expressions – Frank Mar 02 '15 at 01:59
could you give me a code example how to get only these two values out of the string ? – Frank Mar 02 '15 at 02:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '15 at 02:03

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You could do like this,

String s = "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.396068,13.45201,17 phone is outside the area";
String parts[] = s.replaceAll("^.*?=|\\s.*", "").split(",(?=[-+]?\\d+\\.\\d+)");
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(parts));

output:

[42.396068, 13.45201,17]

answered Mar 02 '15 at 02:03

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hi thanx for your answer so the results will be in parts[0] and parts[1| i quess ..i will try this out – Frank Mar 02 '15 at 02:13
perfect answer ...was exactly what i was looking for ..thanx again ! – Frank Mar 02 '15 at 02:22

Android split Text / Numbers from SMS string

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