java pattern find html tag between text

Question

I want find text 'ABCD' in

String text = "<div class=\"aaaa\">1234</div>"
            + "   <li class=\"pcs05\">ABCD</li>";

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<li class=[^A-Za-z0-9]>(\\S+)</li>");
Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
if(m.find()){
    System.out.println(m.group(1));
}

but it doesn't print anything.

Mandatory link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1393766. Any reason you can't use proper tool (HTML or XML parser like jsoup) for that task? — Pshemo, May 25 '16 at 15:59

Priyanka Kotari · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-25T15:55:58.007

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String text =  "<div class=\"aaaa\">1234</div>";
               text +=    "<li class=\"pcs05\">ABCD</li>";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<li class=\"[A-Za-z0-9]+\">(\\S+)</li>");
    Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
    if(m.find()){
        System.out.println(m.group(1));
    }

edited May 25 '16 at 15:55

answered May 25 '16 at 15:45

Priyanka Kotari

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

Preferred tool for this kind of task is HTML or XML parser (more info Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?). One of simpler parser I like to use is jsoup. Nice thing about it is that it supports CSS query syntax.

So your code could look like:

String text = "<div class=\"aaaa\">1234</div>"
            + "   <li class=\"pcs05\">ABCD</li>";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(text);
String liValue = doc.select("li").text();

System.out.println(liValue);

Output: ABCD

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