Getting a value that follows string.find()

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 19:18:43 EDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:03 PM,  <englishkevin110 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Aside from the fact that I really want a pony, and you seem to want
your work done for you, look here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11600681/parse-query-part-from-url
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