getting content of string between two quotes

[crazydiode]

Hi All...
I am trying to get the content that is in between two href tags of a string. And after i get that content, i will need to process it further on. But how do i get only the content as shown below..

<a href="/detail.html?detailID=56141">

i only want "/detail.html?detailID=56141". Please help !!!...

thanks,

[masher]

have a look at the indexOf() and substring() methods in the String class.

That will allow you to get the index of a particular char or string, and then you can put those numbers into the substring method to give you your string sans the HTML bit.

[graviton]

another approach: pattern and matcher classes for regex. but more difficult for people who are not fammiliar to regular expressions.

[hagi]

public String token(String tokens){
int a = 0;
char s = tokens.charAt(a);
String token = "";

while(s != '>' ) {
if(s == '<')
token += "";
else{
token += s ;

}
a++;
s = tokens.charAt(a);
}

[hagi]

Soryy for the mistake

public String token(String tokens){

[hagi]

Again
Soryy for the mistake

public String token(String tokens){
int a = 0;
char s = tokens.charAt(a);
String token = "";

while(s != '>' ) {
  if(s == '<')
    token += "";
  else{
     token += s ;
     
   }
   a++;
   s = tokens.charAt(a);
}
return tokens;

[hagi]

Ah I am too tired,
return tokens replace with;

return token;

Sorry, sorry, sorry very much
As I said I am too tired today
Again Sorry

[sjalle]

another approach: pattern and matcher classes for regex. but more difficult for people who are not fammiliar to regular expressions.

For HTML parsing there is a set of classes ready made. I have attatched a simple app here that uses some of these features to extract the links, image-urls and the readable text from an HTML document.