Parsing HTML?

[grande]

Hi all, I was wondering if you could help me with this.

I'm parsing HTML, and I was wondering how I could see if there is an opening tag (<) followed by any non-slash character.

For example, this would return true:
<a href="

http://tek-tips.com">

But this would return false:
</a>

(Keep in mind I'm on ActionScript 2, so RegEx isn't an option for me)

Thanks,
- Matt.

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Matt Grande
C# Master.
Ruby on Rails Admirer.
ActionScript Student.
JavaScript Hate-Monger.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

You should be able to do that using various String Class methods such as indexOf(), charAt() etc.

But what I usually do for parsing HTML is to use XML Class. HTML is a form of XML, you can treat it as XML.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk