Extract value from string using regex in java

So suppose you want to extract values from a string based on a certain regex pattern. The thing that i didn't know was that I needed to use () around the data I wanted to capture.

	import java.util.regex.*
	Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(.*)/post/(.*)");
	def str = "http://home.com/post/56"
	Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
	if (m.find()) {
	println m.group(1);
	println m.group(2);
	}

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Output

http://home.com
56

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