Thread: regular expressions

ok straight to the problem, i have this String that my program reads from a file:

package javaapplication1;
 
public class Main {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
      String example = "0001Brad Lambert        00000200.0008081987blambert@my.wctc.edu";
      int tmpa,tmpb;
      String tmp;
      String nameexp = "[A-Z][a-zA-Z]{3,} [A-Z][a-zA-Z]{3,}";
 
           tmpa = example.indexOf(nameexp);
            tmpb = example.lastIndexOf(nameexp);
            System.out.println(tmpa);
            System.out.println(tmpb);
            tmp = example.substring(tmpa, tmpb);
            System.out.println(tmp);
    }
 
}

im trying to use a regular expression
to pulll out the name "Brad Lambert" to a temporary string value
problem is tmpa and tmpb keep returning a value of -1.