Non-Perl regular expressions

[petemar1]

Hello:

http://www.javajunkies.org/index.pl?node_id=3524

I understand this isn't a Java forum, but I have a question tangential to Perl via regular expressions. I'm currently writing a small "screen-scraping" application using java.util.regex.* and am having trouble matching all the strings in a page my pattern should find.

My regex is:

    ViewItem&item=(.*?)&category=

or, alternatively:

    ViewItem&item=(\\d*?)&category=

and the page I'm searching is:

http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?GetResult&rfisactive=1®ion=0&maxrecordsperpage=50&from=R14&query=canon+digital+camera+-battery+-case+-cable+-card+-memory+-camcorder&ht=1&completedonly=1

I'm trying to match all the item IDs for the products listed on the page. I match 1 or two of them but I should return about 50 per page. Any ideas?

Best regards,
petemar1

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