yet another RegExp question

[Bong]

Greeting.
I have a string of the following form:
"<bunch of white space> MANAGER: <manager's lastname>, <manager's firstname> <initial> <bunch of white space> <Employee's lastname>, <employee's firstname> <initial> Status: <a bunch more stuff I don't care about> "

I want to get the "employee's lastname".

I tried:
line.indexOf("([A-Z]*)(,)(.*)(STATUS");
but it didn't work. Any help?


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Bob Rashkin

 

[Diancecht]

Why everyone likes those ugly regex?

String yourLongString;
String middleString = yourLongString.split(",")[1];
int lastSpacePos = middleString.lastIndexOf(" ");
String whatImLookingFor = middleString.substring(lastSpacePos +1);

Cheers,
Dian

 

[Bong]

OK. I like it.

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Bob Rashkin