Thread: help with regex

Hi, to try and save some time I was wondering if anyone here could help me? Currently I am using .trim() to get rid of any white space before or after the current line being looked at. Then I want to split the line and put the parts I want into the array:

theLine = theLine.trim();
String [] tokens = theLine.split("\\s+"); //obviously I need to replace "\\s+" with something else


here is an example of what I need to parse and the pieces i'm trying to get:
I am trying to get "sept 1, 2010" in the first cell of the array. Then 12,9,18,11,19,5
any help would be awesome!

</TR>


<TR class="general_odd_row">
<TD class="historic data">Sept 1, 2010</TD>
<TD align="center" class="crap_I_dont_want text_align_center" >12</TD>
<TD align="center" class="crap_I_dont_want" >9</TD>
<TD align="center" class="crap_I_dont_want" >18</TD>
<TD align="center" class="crap_I_dont_want" >11</TD>
<TD align="center" class="crap_I_dont_want" >19</TD>
<TD align="center" class="crap_I_dont_want" >5</TD>

</TR>



sooo..... <TD blah blah> stuff I need </TD>

Take a look at Lesson: Regular Expressions (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes) and take not that the information you want starts with >, and ends with <.