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Thread: Parsing character strings from websites.

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    Default Parsing character strings from websites.

    Hey guys,

    I'm trying to write a java program to parse a character string as received from a web browser into its component parts. The url I want to parse is a simple form with name, age, etc. I cant write the parser to pull out the info in the forms or get strings to show the inputted data. Here is the source code of the site I want to use.

    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE> STUDENT BIO </TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <H3> BIO </H3>
    <OL>
    <LI>From Dentech.
    <LI>Major Mechanical Engineering.
    <LI>Plans to work for a robotics firm.
    <LI>Future goals to build a robot.
    </OL>
    <UL>
    <LI>Favorite game Persona 3 FES.
    <LI>Favorite TV show Gundam SEED Destiny.
    <LI>Hobbies building gundam models.
    </UL>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>


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    Default Re: Parsing character strings from websites.

    What have you tried? Where are you stuck? Are you familiar with the String class? Regular expressions? We can only guess what help you need or what your experience is.

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    I guess its more of a string processing problem. I am fairly new to java.

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    Default Re: Parsing character strings from websites.

    Quote Originally Posted by AT-LOW View Post
    I guess its more of a string processing problem. I am fairly new to java.
    You did not answer the first two questions. These forums are not a code service, so no one is going to do this for you. Thus, without knowing what you have tried or where exactly you are stuck, you don't leave us much in the way of helping aside from pointing you tutorials and the API
    Strings (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Numbers and Strings)
    String (Java Platform SE 6)

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    I understand that people arent going to do this for me. I'd rather do it on my own so I can learn from it. I was trying to pull the seperate list items in HTML and put them ino java by the use of strings with out writing the info inmyself from the HTML. I wrote the HTML code but I dont know how to make java talk to it to take the info from it.



    EDIT: I got it finally! I used string splits with the url link. Thanks for the link to the string info.

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    I wrote the HTML code but I dont know how to make java talk to it to take the info from it.
    For reading a webpage, you can use a URL and URLConnection( see Reading from and Writing to a URLConnection (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking > Working with URLs) ). Once you then have the text, you can parse it using a variety of methods, some of which are alluded to above.

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    Thank you so much for your help! That tutorial was really handy.

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