Question

Write a method extractTitle that takes a string as input parameter representing IMDB movie information (written in XML style), and extracts all of the text between the tags and . Your method can assume that there will be at most one movie title inside the input string.

Example: extractTitle("Split (2017)6375308") returns "Split (2017)"

Answer 1

public class ExtractTitle {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(extractTitle("<item><title>Split (2017)</title><meta><imdb>6375308</imdb></meta>"));
    }

    public static String extractTitle(String data) {
        int startIndex = data.indexOf("<title>");
        if (startIndex == -1) return "";
        int endIndex = data.indexOf("</title>", startIndex);
        if (endIndex == -1) return "";
        return data.substring(startIndex + 7, endIndex).trim();
    }
}