regular expressions in java

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how can use a regular expression to extract a links in a web page(suppose i get the html page as a text file) using java?

obligatory link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Alexander Kjäll, Aug 19 '10 at 11:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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This previously posted question should help you

How to use regular expressions to parse HTML in Java?

Essentially you should really look at using a HTML parser

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Aug 19 '10 at 11:30

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '10 at 12:06

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Agree that HTML parser will make your life easier if you can include it with your build - I've used Jericho HTML Parser for something similar in the past...

answered Aug 19 '10 at 12:06

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