Hi I am designing an Android Twitter App. I want to know how can I get the return info from the getSource() function to display just the source of the tweet and not the html. Is this something I would have to do on the Android side or is it already built into Twitter4j.

My function is returning and displaying for example,

< a href="http://blackberry.com/twitter" rel="nofloow">Twitter for Blackberry</a>

and all I want to return is

Twitter for Blackberry

Hi shakey,

In the case of what you are showing us here you could simply do a couple of substrings to get to that:

< a href="http://blackberry.com/twitter" rel="nofloow">Twitter for Blackberry</a>

String s = "< a href=\"http://blackberry.com/twitter\" rel=\"nofloow\">Twitter for Blackberry</a>";
s = s.substring(s.indexOf(">")+1); //cuts off everything before Twitter
s = s.substring(0, s.indexOf("<")); //everything from the first char to less than

Ignore the escaped quotes, I just had to do that to make it work from an assignment like this. You can use this on your string without doing anything to it like the escapes.

Hope this helps.

Phyll

Thank Phil

I got it figured out earlier today.

By taking the returned html string and trimming it with regex.

I do appreciate your help though .

Your code will probably come in handy for future projects.

Hi shakey,

Maybe you'd like to share how you used trim to solve this problem. I for one would like to see how that works.

Thanks,

Phyll