HELP !!! (Capture text between html tags)

[zeny]

Hey ppl,

How can we capture text between html tags using regular expressions? For example, how to capture the words "hello", "world", "bla", "bla" and "bla" in the following input:

<br><i>hello world <br><br> bla bla bla <br>

Best Regards

[blazedaces]

Parser may exist already for this kind of thing, but why don't you just parse it yourself? Read in the text one character at a time. When you get to a ">" you see what comes up next. If it's "<" you do nothing, otherwise you keep it and store it (capture it?) Basically, if there's text between ">" and "<" you extract it. Otherwise, you keep going.

Hope this helped,
-blazed

Edit: you might also want to do something to ignore whitespace-only text in case someone goes <br> <br>Something </br></br> ...

[JosAH]

Java has an entire framework implemented for manipulating HTML so why do it
all yourself? Create an HTMLEditorKit and an HTMLDocument. Make
the kit read data into the document given a simple Reader. When the content
is loaded create an HTML.DocumentIt erator using the document. The iterator
needs an HTML.Tag to iterate over; the iterator delivers the text between
the tags.

kind regards,

Jos

[jx2]

I would use regular expresion

String [] yourArray; // an array of the captured text 
yourArray = yourString.split("<[^>]*>");

unfortunately there is no implode method so if you need it to be one string you have to connect those parts together using i.e. StringBuilder

good luck with your project
jan jarczyk