get a value from a content string

vbandaru is right, the only additional thing you may want to do is decode the urls:

import java.net.*;

public class extracturls
{
      public static void main(String[] args)
      {
            String contentString="xmlurl=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%2Fmydbs%2Fwipdesign.nsf%2FagtGetDocsViewXML%3Fopenagent%26u%3Dc956395%26uname%3DJoe+Blogg%26start%3D1%26count%3D9999%26viewname%3Dfrmgicsissueview%26frmname%3D%26frmtype%3DView&xslurl=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%2Fmydbs%2Fwipdesign.nsf%2Fviewreport.xsl";

            String xmlurl= URLDecoder.decode(contentString.substring(7,contentString.indexOf("xslurl")-1));

            String xslurl= URLDecoder.decode(contentString.substring(contentString.indexOf("xslurl")+7));
            
            System.out.println(xmlurl);
            System.out.println(xslurl);
      }
}

>>vbandaru is right

? So i'm wrong am i? ;-)

In any case, your comment is redundant - you obviously have not read the question:

>>I do have a method to decode the content string, ...

Thanks you all for your contribution, however it would be nice to have a class that I can use to pass it the content string and the lookup field and return its value.

objects, i am getting the message Method split(java.lang.String) not found in class java.lang.String

it only became available in 1.4.
you'll need to use StringTokenizer in previous versions.