I am parsing a file and it has time based entries in it. format is like:

```
00:02:10-XYZ:Count=10
00:04:50-LMK:Count=3

```

Here what I want is to extract the time value from string line

I have searched many links and couldn't find out the thing what I want, eventually I have written this code.

```
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("((?i)[0-9]{1,2}:??[0-9]{0,2}:??[0-9]{0,2})"); //(?i)[0-9]{1,2}:??[0-9]{0,2}:??[0-9]{0,2}  //\\d{1,2}:\\d{1,2}:\\d{1,2}
    Matcher matcher;
    List<String> listMatches;

```

Below is the loop where I apply logic

```
    for(int x = 0; x < file_content.size(); x++)
    {
            matcher= pattern.matcher(file_content.get(x));
            listMatches = new ArrayList<String>();
            while(matcher.find())
            {
                listMatches.add(matcher.group(1));
                break;
            }
     }

```

I want when "matcher.find()" gives true it returns me [00:02:10] in first iteration and [00:04:50] in 2nd iterations.