Regex to find hidden fields in HTML page

Hi all,
I'm trying to extract all the hidden field in a particular form,
I am currently using this:
Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("<INPUT(.*?)>");
which returns a multitude of input types is there any way I can just search for the hidden types, any input would be much appreciated, Thanks
I have tried Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile<INPUT TYPE="hidden"(.*?)>");
but java will not let me escape the quotes please help.

Regex'ing html/xml forms is not a good idea unless you know that the forms were createdly in a very strict format. Trying to do it on generic forms means that you will spend a great deal of time creating very complicated regexes for patterns that actually seldom appear.
It is much better to use a parser and then look for values that way.

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