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Check out JTidy. It will parse the HTML and give you a DOM interface to iterate over.

I would strongly recommend not using a regexp for all but the simplest cases. HTML isn't regular and has no end of edge cases to trip you up.

Brian Agnew 2009-09-11 09:43:21

+1, avoid RegEx the most, because using it you'll have 2 problems.And please, do a little search before posting, there is a billion times this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/299942/regex-matching-html-tags-and-extracting-text and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/181095/regular-expression-to-extract-text-from-html and so on.

Clement Herreman 2009-09-11 09:46:46

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26638/what-html-parsing-libraries-do-you-recommend-in-java offers some libraries that do the tidying and parsing. But your answer put me in the right direction. Thank you.

elhoim 2009-09-11 12:39:42

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Take a look at regulazy...

It will allow you to create a regexp from an input string with a simple point and click interface.

http://osherove.com/tools/

Heiko Hatzfeld 2009-09-11 09:53:03

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