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I need to find a regular expression which pulls out a value from a table cell in a html doc.
Example contents of this table cell are “Result: 40 mins”.
I need a regular expression to match the actual number (40).
This is in java, thanks in advance.
I’ve tried to do this with regular expressions before, and it is a pain in the hole.
It is MUCH easier to use something like an XPath expression, where you can specify the location by its place in the DOM hierarchy. The Apache libraries can do this (specifically Xalan) wihich can be found here: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
You can use the Firefox addon XPath Checker to help you out with this.
The area you’re talking about is called “web scraping” by the way, if you’re looking for other tools/information.