Getting a value that follows string.find()

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 18:58:07 EDT 2013


lookup urlparse for you answer

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:51 PM,  <englishkevin110 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know the title doesn't make much sense, but I didnt know how to explain my problem.
>
> Anywho, I've opened a page's source in URLLIB
> starturlsource = starturlopen.read()
> string.find(starturlsource, '<a href="/profile.php?id=')
> And I used string.find to find a specific area in the page's source.
> I want to store what comes after ?id= in a variable.
> Can someone help me with this?
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