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    copied!<p>i have the following situation:</p> <p>I want to extract all text between the "span" tags</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="examplediv"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="examplediv"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="examplediv"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="examplediv"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Where all the first lines are going to be stored in variable "A", all the second lines in "B", all the third lines in "C" and so on.</p> <p>My Java code is as follows:</p> <pre><code>File input = new File("/tmp/input.html"); Document doc = Jsoup.parse(input, "UTF-8", "http://example.com/"); Elements exa = doc.select(".examplediv span"); if (exa != null) { for (int i = 0; i &lt; exa.size(); i++) { A[i] = exa.get(i).text(); } } </code></pre> <p>This code puts all lines in variable "A".</p> <pre><code>A = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 </code></pre> <p>And i want it to be stored like this:</p> <pre><code>A = 1,5,9,13 B = 2,6,10,14 C = 3,7,11,15 D = 4,8,12,16 </code></pre> <p>Please give me some advice on how to do this. Thanks and Happy Holidays.</p> <p>EDIT ---------------------------------</p> <p>I had this idea:</p> <pre><code>if (exa != null) { for (int i = 0; i &lt; exa.size(); i++) { A[i] = exa.get(0).text(); B[i] = exa.get(1).text(); C[i] = exa.get(2).text(); D[i] = exa.get(3).text(); } } </code></pre> <p>It gives me</p> <pre><code>A = 1,2,3,4 B = 1,2,3,4 C = 1,2,3,4 D = 1,2,3,4 </code></pre> <p>It repeats the first 4 spans.</p> <p>How can i at least get:</p> <pre><code>A = 1,2,3,4 B = 5,6,7,8 C = 9,10,11,12 D = 13,14,15,16 </code></pre>
 

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