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Regular expression?

Hi,

As a project for a friend I need to capture every album name from his website (long story).

Instead of going through page by page I thought it would be a good idea to scrape the html using regular expressions to extract the album names.

1) my first question is, is this the best way to go about it or can any body suggest a better method that I may not be aware of.

The reason I ask for a "better" method is because I've looked up regex for the first time and I'm pretty sure it will take me days to construct a useful expression (I find it hugely complex)

2) The layout of the html source is like this.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<tr class="productListing-odd"> <td align="center" class="productListing-data"> <img src="images/484_angra9.jpg" border="0" alt="ANGRA Angel's cry lp" title=" ANGRA Angel's cry lp " width="80" height="80"> </td> <td class="productListing-data"> ANGRA Angel's cry lp </td> <td align="right" class="productListing-data"> 33.00EUR </td> <td align="center" class="productListing-data"><img src="includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_buy_now.gif" border="0" alt="Buy Now" title=" Buy Now " width="60" height="16"> </td> </tr>

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Based on this Should I first (and can I)
>Find all "image" tags

>Then find all "title" attributes within the imgage tags


So basically what I need to figure out..... I think, is how to capture the title attribute from every image tag
Any advice to get me up and going in some sort of direction is much appreciated

Thanks
Jul 11 '07 #1
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Hi,

Ive gotten this far

<img[^>]+>

All this does is list all the image tags.

<img src="images/484_angra9.jpg" border="0" alt="ANGRA Angel's cry lp" title=" ANGRA Angel's cry lp " width="80" height="80">

now all I need is to specify that I want the title attribute within hte tags.

How do I do this?

Again if you know a better way please let me know

thanks
Jul 11 '07 #2

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