Question

Hi I am trying to extract text which a href defines in a html line. For example:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">

I want to get “style.css” or:

<a href="target0.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/image001.jpg" width="154" height="99">

I want to get “target0.html”

What would be the correct Java code to do this?

Answer 1

    public static String getHref(String str)
    {
        int startIndex = str.indexOf("href=");
        if (startIndex < 0)
            return "";
        return str.substring(startIndex + 6, str.indexOf("\"", startIndex + 6));
    }

This method assumes that the html is well formed and it only works for the first href in the string but I’m sure you can extrapolate from here.