java - REGEX matching with any character(s) between 2 strings -

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i tried regex tester , works. why can't work java. hoping search neither..........nor

i want count how many neither somethingnor in string : "neither u or me human".

i have tried :

occurrence += sentence.split( "(?i)\\wneither.+nor\\w" ).length - 1; 

but not working because output system.out.print(occurrence) result 0.

i thought \\w stands non-word character while .+ means character(s).

how can occurrence result of 1?

you can count occurrences this:

pattern pattern = pattern.compile("(neither|nor)", pattern.case_insensitive); matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("neither u or me human");  int count = 0; while (matcher.find())     count++;  system.out.println(count);