Below is a small test program I wrote to try and
do a simple parse of an XML expression, where I
can extract the tag(s) and the data on a single
line.  Yes, I know about the other ways to parse
real XML, but I am trying to learn Java only.  My
test case is very simple (see below).  The problem
seems to be something tricky about the fact that
I am reading the input from the console.

I have tried the regexp in all of the following forms:

    Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("<(\\S+)>(\\S+)</\\1>");
    Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("<(\\S+)>(\\S+)</\\1>\n");
    Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("<(\\S+)>(\\S+)</\\1>\r\n");

In Windows cmd.exe, none of these match when I enter

    <t1>foo</t1>

as standard input.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Mitch

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import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.regex.*;

public class test {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

   PrintWriter out = null;
   BufferedReader stdIn = null;
    String server = "";
    String userInput;

   stdIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

   // read arguments
    if(args.length == 1) {
       server = args[0];
    } else {
       System.out.println("no args");
    }

// this one works, but is not really what I want
//    Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("<(\\S+)>(\\S+)<(\\S+)>");

// this one is the correct one that won't match unless the closing tag
matches
// the opening tag, but I cannot get it to work with input from the
console...
    Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("<(\\S+)>(\\S+)</\\1>\r\n");

    Matcher m1 = p1.matcher("<t1>foo</t1>\r\n");
   System.out.println("matched test string = " + m1.matches());

   while ((userInput = stdIn.readLine()) != null) {

       System.out.println("got user input: " + userInput + " length " +
userInput.length());

       // Now see if the pattern matches

       Matcher m = p1.matcher(userInput);

       System.out.println("matched = " + m.matches());

        System.out.println("numGroups found: " + m.groupCount() + "\n");

        // If there were matches, print out the groups found

        if (m.matches()) {

            for (int j = 1; j <= m.groupCount(); j++) {
                System.out.println("group " + m.group(j) + " found\n");
            }  // end for
        }  // end if

    }  // end while

    stdIn.close();

    }  // end main

}  // end class test