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    <p>I have searched far and wide for a number of days now trying to find the answer to the following problem. I am pretty new to Java and Android programming and have learnt mainly from copy-paste-edit scenarios, but despite there being a few tutorials around I am really struggling with this one.</p> <p>I have tried htmlcleaner as my parser, and I'm sure I'm close but just cant get this right.</p> <p>I am trying to parse a table of values on a website (i.e. <code>&lt;TR&gt;TD,TD,TD,TD&lt;/TR&gt;</code>) into a standard Android SQLite database. So each row of the table would be a row in the db.</p> <p>In theory this should be quite simple but I am getting snowed under with different methods and not understanding a simple clean way to do it.</p> <p>Can anybody help? Please don't point me to a htmlparser or non-specific tutorial because I have worked at these for ages and can't manage a solution.</p> <p>The table values I am trying to parse are here: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_sport/rugby/competition/ru100/table/index.shtml?context=cps_ukfs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Teams and values</a></p> <p>EDIT:::</p> <p>OK I think I'm getting close using JSoup. I can grab a value from within a [td] tag and put it to a string. However, how can I adapt the following code so that each row (i.e. within each [tr]) is iterated for each 'for', and each [td] value is put to a String array?</p> <pre><code>public class GetTable extends Activity { static String hello; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.testlayout); try { populateTexts(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } private void populateTexts() throws IOException{ String url = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_sport/rugby/competition/ru100/table/index.shtml?context=cps_ukfs"; Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get(); Elements links = doc.select("td"); for (Element link : links) { hello = link.text(); TextView twittertext10 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.testView1); twittertext10.setText(hello); } } } </code></pre>
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