Question

I have html strings like these:

<img src="mysrc" width="128" height="92" border="0" alt="alt" /><p><strong>...

I’d like to extract mysrc. I don’t want to use an html parser as I’ll just have to deal with simple html strings…is there an efficient way to extract source field just with string/regular expressions? Or maybe with android default xml parser?

Answer 1

regex you could try : "(?<=<img src=\")[^\"]*"

example:

@Test
    public void testX() {
        final String s = "<img src=\"mysrc\" width=\"128\" height=\"92\"...";
        final String regex = "(?<=<img src=\")[^\"]*";
        final Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
        final Matcher m = p.matcher(s);
        while (m.find()) {
            System.out.println(m.group());
        }

    }

will give you

mysrc