RosettaCodeData/Task/Web-scraping/Microsoft-Small-Basic/web-scraping.basic

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'Entered by AykayayCiti -- Earl L. Montgomery
url_name = "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"
url_data = Network.GetWebPageContents(url_name)
find = "UTC"
' the length from the UTC to the time is -18 so we need
' to subtract from the UTC position
pos = Text.GetIndexOf(url_data,find)-18
result = Text.GetSubText(url_data,pos,(18+3)) 'plus 3 to add the UTC
TextWindow.WriteLine(result)
'you can eleminate a line of code by putting the
' GetIndexOf insde the GetSubText
'result2 = Text.GetSubText(url_data,Text.GetIndexOf(url_data,find)-18,(18+3))
'TextWindow.WriteLine(result2)