Html paser of regular expression

Dear all,
I know some of you will think my problem can be solved by an open-source html parser but I tested the following list of parsers (http://java-source.net/open-source/html-parsers) and failed to find one that meets my requirement as I explained below.
I would like to parse a html file and fetch the hyper links from it.
I wrote the following regular expression and it works in most cases:
.*(src|href|url|action)\s*=\s*["|']?(.*?)["|'|\s?|>].*However, I have until now two troubles:
1. For "<a href="directory.html">Directory</a> | <a href="a-z.html">A - Z</a>", I expceted to fetch "directory.html" and "a-z.html" but I only got the last one.
2. I expected to exclude "http://www.javaeye.com/upload.jpg" in "<img alt="subwayline13" class="logo" src="http://www.javaeye.com/upload.jpg" title="subject" />". I still could not find a solution for this.
Therefore, I would wish that you can give me some new advices.
Merry Chirstmas and Happy New Year!
Pengyou

pengyou wrote:
Dear all,
I know some of you will think my problem can be solved by an open-source html parser but I tested the following list of parsers (http://java-source.net/open-source/html-parsers) and failed to find one that meets my requirement as I explained below.
Then you did something wrong when you were using the parser.
I would like to parse a html file and fetch the hyper links from it.
I wrote the following regular expression and it works in most cases:
.*(src|href|url|action)\s*=\s*["|']?(.*?)["|'|\s?|>].*However, I have until now two troubles:
1. For "<a href="directory.html">Directory</a> | <a href="a-z.html">A - Z</a>", I expceted to fetch "directory.html" and "a-z.html" but I only got the last one.
2. I expected to exclude "http://www.javaeye.com/upload.jpg" in "<img alt="subwayline13" class="logo" src="http://www.javaeye.com/upload.jpg" title="subject" />". I still could not find a solution for this.
Therefore, I would wish that you can give me some new advices.
Same advice as before.
1. Use an existing html parser correctly.
2. Write you own html parser. An actual parser. A parser would be part of your solution, not the entire solution.
And more advice...do not attempt to use regexes to parse html nor xml for that matter. The reason for that is because by the time you get it right, if ever, you will have built a parser. So instead start with one right away.
I suspect that your actual problem is that you don't know what a parser is and what it should do. So you think that a "parser" should give you there result you want rather than giving you tokens. A parser parses a source based on a grammer and produces tokens. A token is not an image file until you further interpret a particular token that way.
Finally note that in the above I said you could build your own parser if you wanted. But then you must in fact build a parser. If you do it correctly then you are going to end up with something that is functionally equivalent to one of the existing parsers. If you do it wrong then it won't.

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Hi,
As from your question,
I got that you want to parse the HTML file and from the names in the array you want to
get the code those controls.
In that case I think you can use
Find the string
1.which starts with '<' and ends with '>'
2.It must contains your work("txtLastName", "address"....) in double quotes(statring & ending) excatly one.
Best,
Ronak

Html paser of regular expression

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