..little boo-boo in multi-posting this message
to comp.lang.java.help, after making a post to
comp.lang.java.programmer.

Please refrain from multi-posting, in future.

X-post to c.l.j.p./h., w/ f-u to c.l.j.h. only.

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Andrew T.

Don't clutter the forum with your multi posts, please!
Your regex code is very wrong. Study this code and go to bed. I didn't
touch your weird regex string but I firmly believe it is also wrong
for your desired purpose which I don't know in its details.
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import java.net.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Mnm{

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
   String contStr = "";
   String line = null;

   Locale.setDefault(Locale.US);
   // String urlStr = "http://google.com";
   String urlStr = "http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en";

   if (args.length > 0){
     urlStr = args[0];
   }

   URL url = new URL(urlStr);
   InputStream is = url.openStream();

   BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
   while ((line = br.readLine()) != null){
     contStr += line;
   }

   findUrl(contStr);
 }

 public static void findUrl(String content) {
   int gc, counter, gcounter;
   gc = counter = gcounter = 0;

   Pattern p = Pattern.compile
("(@)?(http://)?[a-zA-Z_0-9\\-]+(\\.\\w[a-zA-Z_0-9\\-]+)+(/[#&\\n\\-=?\
\+\\%/\\.\\w]+)?");

   Matcher m = p.matcher(content);
   gc = m.groupCount();
   for (int i = 0; i <= gc; ++i){
     System.out.println("GROUP" + i + " : ");
     while (m.find()){
       ++counter;
       ++gcounter;
       System.out.println(gcounter + ".> " + m.group(i));
     }
     m.reset(content); // for next group
     gcounter = 0;
   }
   if (counter == 0){
     System.out.println("--no match--");
   }
 }
}
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to find out the problem, keep chopping the tail end off and redoing
the search.  When the elements it missed come back, you know the
problem was in the bit you just chopped.

I usually compose these just a bit at a time, adding on just a phrase
before testing.

for other hints see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html

If you're extracting URLs from HTML, it's a lot easier to try to
recognize the anchor tags. Write a regex to recognize:

<a ~ href="~" ~ >

where ~ means "up to". I've implemented this in a lexer and it works
reliably. (Regexes work a little differently in a lexer, so I don't have
a regex to post). Just adjust to handle mixed case.