String operations or regex please

[africanhacker]

<h1 class="headline1"><a href="article/2011-03-31-obama-saga-sucks-in-senior-democrats">
Obama in serious trouble
</a></h1>

I am trying to parse a page which has headlines of this sort on it. Now my objective is to isolate all instance of links that are found in the h1 tag of class headline

article/2011-03-31-obama-saga-sucks-in-senior-democrats

and the concatenate it with http://www.website.com/ so I end up with:

 http://www.website.com/article/2011-03-31-obama-saga-sucks-in-senior-democrats

I will then use this url to get the content of article in question.

There are perhaps 15 links with the structure described above. How get these links an ignore all the other HTML on the page. Help please :(

[eRaaaa]

You could use the Scanner class.
The following is not tested (and works only if the links are exactly like you have said)
Try something like

		Scanner sc = new Scanner(new URL("HERE YOUR URL").openStream());
		while (sc.findWithinHorizon("<h1 class=\"headline1\"><a href=\"(.+?)\">", 0) != null) {
			System.out.println("http://www.website.com/" + sc.match().group(1)); //do anything with the string :)
		}

[africanhacker]

Let me test this, thanks for spending your time on this

[ozzyman]

eRaaaa, i'm not so good with regex, but is it possible to replace this part:
<h1 class=\"headline1\">
with this:
<h1*>
to eliminate the need for a particular CSS class?

[eRaaaa]

You mean <h1 .*?> or?
Yes its possible, but I thought he wants only extract the links of class headline1

"Now my objective is to isolate all instance of links that are found in the h1 tag of class headline "

Maybe he means <h1 class=\"headline.*?\"> too ?! :)

[ozzyman]

no i think he only wanted the class headline like you originally posted, but i was just curious myself, thanks.

what i meant was, so that the program would recognize all forms of H1

<h1>
<h1 class="head1">
<h1 class="head2">
<h1 color=red class="otherHead">

i thought that * indicates any character or no character,
but i guess thats not correct

[africanhacker]

<h1 class="headline1">

I want to do this operation on links within all such tags.

[eRaaaa]

Can you give us the URL or is it secret? =)
And what`s your problem now? My example isn`t working? :p