I am using Regex Patterns and I need to check that the beginning of the String is an HTML Simple Text and return that String. So for example:
Hello World!<TAG> &nsbp;
Should return:
Hello World!
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If you are parsing HTML you should use an HTML parser. – Mark Byers Dec 10 '10 at 23:58
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/701166/can-you-provide-some-examples-of-why-it-is-hard-to-parse-xml-and-html-with-a-rege – Stephen C Dec 11 '10 at 01:33
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"split" takes a regex as the first argument – thejh Dec 11 '10 at 10:41
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Remember that if you're parsing large sections of text or entire files, you should force the String into a new reference otherwise you may get a memory leak due to substrings.
new String("Hello World!<TAG> &nsbp;".split("<")[0])
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if you check the API for String.split, technically it is a regex :) – David O'Meara Dec 11 '10 at 12:15
