Extract strings using Jsoup

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I'm trying to get some name form class attribute within a website html page by using Jsoup Library, The problem is that i'm getting the elements by class using getElementsByClass("name") and store it into a string variable and the result coming like this "mike andro rob banks maria gerardo louis....etc". but what i want is to separate the individual names and store them into array. the following is the code snippet:

public String processText(String htmlPage) {

    Document html = Jsoup.parse(htmlPage);
    String names = html.body().getElementsByClass("name").text();
    return names;
}

More information:

The source page is an html page and i am saving the full html code in a string and then process the string to extract only the Elements under the class="name"

htmlPage which i am passing to processText method is similar to the following:

<div class="name">
       Rob Kardashian
      </div>
     </div>
    </a>
   </div>
     <div class="channelListEntry">
    <a href="/zayn_malik">
     <div class="image">
      <img src="http://cdn.posh24.com/images/:profile/014cf47ca44daf8f44a3e0720929ee327" alt="Zayn Malik"/>
     </div>
     
      
          <div class="info">
      <div class="status-container">
       <div class="position">4</div>
        
        <div class="img pos"></div>
        <div class="value">+12</div>
             
      </div>
      <div class="name">
       Zayn Malik
      </div>
     </div>
    </a>
   </div>
     <div class="channelListEntry">
    <a href="/kanye_west">
     <div class="image">
      <img src="http://cdn.posh24.com/images/:profile/03f352f71ffab135cd81821eb190d4832" alt="Kanye West"/>
     </div>
     
      
          <div class="info">
      <div class="status-container">
       <div class="position">5</div>
        
        <div class="img pos"></div>
        <div class="value">+16</div>
             
      </div>
      <div class="name">
       Kanye West
      </div>
     </div>
    </a>
   </div>
     <div class="channelListEntry">
    <a href="/kendall_jenner">
     <div class="image">
      <img src="http://cdn.posh24.com/images/:profile/066d5c02547c4357f1bc5f633c68f4085" alt="Kendall Jenner"/>
     </div>

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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you can simply use split function to get an array from string

String arr[]=names.trim().split("\\s");

plus if you have spaces and tab combined between name then use

  String arr[]=names.split("\\s+");

Update:

      ArrayList<String>  name=new ArrayList<String>();
      for (Element output: html.body().getElementsByClass("name")) {
          name.add(output.text());
          }

example link

Output :

link to convert list to array

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Sep 11 '16 at 10:52

Pavneet_Singh

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please note that the string contain each person name and lastname – Emad Jaber Sep 11 '16 at 11:04
let just say some people have last name and some don't or some have first+middle+last name then how you will make the difference between "jhon snow robert" as single name – Pavneet_Singh Sep 11 '16 at 11:07
that is why im asking im trying to save the name in the array right from the source from HTML code using the Jsoup library – Emad Jaber Sep 11 '16 at 11:10
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in the source page it looks like this
Jamie Foxx
– Emad Jaber Sep 11 '16 at 11:11
put these new updates into your post to make it clear what you exactly want – Pavneet_Singh Sep 11 '16 at 11:14

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