Extracting String from HTML source

Question

Hi want to extract String between HTML Tags from a source code but I am getting an error by using the code given below. Could someone help me with the reason for error?

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("/\<body[^>]*\>([^]*)\<\/body/");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(s1);
while (matcher.find()) {
  System.out.println( "Found value: " + matcher.group(1).trim() );
}

The error I am getting is: "Invalid escape sequence"

Thanks

Don't parse HTML using regex. See stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/… — Gereon
– Gereon, Commented Apr 19, 2015 at 8:54

Avinash Raj · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-19 08:50:04Z

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Don't parse html files with regex. I suggest you to use jsoup parser.

String html = "<html><body><h1> Hello, World! </h1></body></html>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
String text = doc.body().text();
System.out.println(text);

Output:

Hello, World!

answered Apr 19, 2015 at 8:50

Avinash Raj

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Arnav Over a year ago

Thanks Avinash. Appreciate it

Avinash Raj Over a year ago

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