Parse HTML in a String

Question

I have many string with html markup like that:

<font face='verdana'>A great project with many companies
A <b>plumber</b> company as external.
An <i>electricity</i> company.
And a security guard <u><i><b>during 2 weeks </b></i></u>.
</font>

Me, for each markup I want a new string with contents and markup, in my exemple it will be:

string1 = "A great project with many companies
A"

string2 = "<b>plumber</b>"

string3 = " company as external.
An"

string4 = "<i>electricity</i>"

string5 = " company.
And a 

string6 = "<font color='FF6600'>security </font>"

string7 = "guard"

string8 = "<u><i><b>during 2 weeks </b></i></u>"

string9 = "."

string10 = "</font>"

The first <font face='verdana'>and the last </font> can be deleted.

I've tried with the matcher method but the result wasn't exactly what I want, or maybe my regex wasn't good. I've tried also to search first beginning tag and the first closing tag which corresponds but it's didn't work because all font tag (<font color='FF6600'> and ` have the same closing tag);.

You should use a HTML parser to parse HTML, regex is not suitable. It might "work" for certain small chunks of HTML but it's not a good approach. — Matt, Jul 25 '17 at 08:59
See [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3742598) and use a DOM parser instead — Philipp, Jul 25 '17 at 09:01
Just to be precise: it is simply not possible to parse **arbitrary** HTML input using regular expressions technically. And as you already intend to do more complex things, dont waste your time with regular expressions. — GhostCat, Jul 25 '17 at 09:11
Ok so I need to use Jsoup, but event with Jsoup I don't know how to do that — Clement Cuvillier, Jul 25 '17 at 12:02
Have a look at the jsoup [docs](https://jsoup.org/cookbook/introduction/parsing-a-document), it's pretty straight-forward. — Matt, Jul 26 '17 at 00:48

Parse HTML in a String

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