Question

I have a chunk of HTML I need to pull a word from. The string realClean contains the HTML.

<div class="smallfont">
<small>

Originally Posted By: chingy51o

</small>
</div>

I need to pull chingy51o out of it. I’ve been having issues with this for a while, so I have widened my search to just pull out any line containing Originally Posted By: in hopes that once I’m able to isolate that, I can go in an extract the more specific data from it, but I can even get that line extracted.

            String authorString = "Originally Posted By: .*?";
            if (realClean.contains(authorString)) {
                    Log.d("AUTHORS!", authorString + "\n");
            }

but that’s not returning any values.

Answer 1

Create a Scanner object and search each line.

String authorString = "Originally Posted By:";
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(realClean);
try {
  while ( scanner.hasNextLine() ){
    String line = scanner.nextLine();
    if(line.contains(authorString){
       Log.d("AUTHORS!", line.split(authorString)[1] + "\n");
  }
}