Extract the in-betweens...

jas0n23

Hey All! :-D I've been readin' up on Regular Expressions alot lately because I need to Extract words inbetween HTML tags for example I need to extract the words 'extract this!': Extract this! and also: Extract this URL I have followed many examples and read MSDN and I just can't get it to work. Can anyone please shed some light on this matter? Thanks in advance Jay. j.t.

Christian Graus

Use regex grouping to match the bits you want to keep and build a new string, or to match the bits you want to remove, and then remove them.

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jas0n23

Yay! Thanks lots Christian Graus.

j.t.

12Code

jay_t55 wrote:

need to extract the words 'extract this!': Extract this!

Here you go..

        string str = "<title>Extract this!</title>";
        Regex RE = new Regex(@"(<title> )(\\w|\\S|\\s )+(</title> )");
        MatchCollection MC = RE.Matches(str);

        if (MC.Count == 0) MessageBox.Show("No match");
        foreach (Match M in MC)
        {                
            string trimStr = "</title>";                
            MessageBox.Show(M.ToString().Trim(trimStr.ToCharArray()));
        }

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jas0n23

Wow! Thank you so much 8Kelvin, very much appreciated!! :-D Jay.

j.t.

realJSOP

What you want is an HTML parser (google is your friend). Don't mess around with regex because you'll spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. Believe me - downloading a parser will be much faster.

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PIEBALDconsult

Hear hear! This is a wheel best not reinvented.