Getting a value that follows string.find()

[englishkevin110 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:58:07 PM UTC-5, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> lookup urlparse for you answer
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> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:51 PM,  <> wrote:
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> > I know the title doesn't make much sense, but I didnt know how to explain my problem.
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> > Anywho, I've opened a page's source in URLLIB
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> > starturlsource = starturlopen.read()
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> > string.find(starturlsource, '<a href="/profile.php?id=')
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> > And I used string.find to find a specific area in the page's source.
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> > I want to store what comes after ?id= in a variable.
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> > Can someone help me with this?
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> Joel Goldstick
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I dont want to do any kind of HTML parsing.