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Hi all,
I wasn't sure where to post this, so I thought here might be best :D
I have to develop a program that takes a webpage and extracts information from it, so I was wander how would be the best way to do this, without using an external library(like curl)?
I.e. how does ones browser find words on a webpage when using ctrl+F, does it simply run a string search algorithm or are there other tricks to it? Another way to look at it, how would a web crawler know about the links etc, does it search for all <a></a> tags in the webpage or like before might there be some other trick to it?
Any pointers would be gladly appreciated :D
Thanks

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I'd bet you Qt has some widgets that are searchable. I've never used them, but it might be worth looking into.

Also, are you sure you need to do this in c++? People tell me that perl is the way to go for string manipulation/searching/etc.

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