Question

I have several HTML files, each has a single <h1> tag in it. I want to parse that tag to get it’s content (a name of a book). A tag looks like this for example:

<H1>bookname</H1>

I am trying to get it using this code:

Scanner scan = new Scanner(file, "Windows-1255");
String name="";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<H1>*</H1>"); //tried adding '(' and ')' around the '*', didn't help
while (scan.hasNext()) {
    name = scan.nextLine();
    Matcher m = p.matcher(name);
    if (m.matches()) {
        name = name.substring(4, name.length() - 6);
        break;
    }
}

It doesn’t work, the h1 tag is never matched and I don’t get the name.
How is this supposed to be done?

Perhaps it’s important, the contents of the H1 tags are in Hebrew, charset=Windows-1255.

Answer 1

Try using

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<H1>.*</H1>");

(notice the extra . – your version matches just empty tags).