How to use regex to grab information from a web page?

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I'd like to develop an iPhone application that get's it's data from a web pages using regex applied on that web page. I was wondering if that's possible by the SDK.

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Are you sure it's a regex you want? Or do you just want to extract a certain piece of text from a web page? In that case, regex probably isn't the best tool for the job. — Skilldrick, Jul 26 '10 at 08:47
There is information laid out in tables and fields and i would like to extract them. Regex is the only thing i could think of, can you suggest something else ? — Salem Sayed, Jul 26 '10 at 11:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '10 at 08:47

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Yes it is. From my understanding RegexKit is widely used and it can be applied as a part of your project or as a static library.

answered Jul 26 '10 at 08:47

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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Do NOT parse HTML using regular expressions. Read this if you don't believe me :)

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answered Jul 26 '10 at 09:48

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That link was amazing! Thanks – Salem Sayed Jul 28 '10 at 18:14

How to use regex to grab information from a web page?

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