How to use regular expressions to parse HTML in Java?

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Using regular expressions to pull values from HTML is always a mistake. HTML syntax is a lot more complex that it may first appear and it’s very easy for a page to catch out even a very complex regular expression.

Use an HTML Parser instead. See also What are the pros and cons of the leading Java HTML parsers?

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