Regex Question
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I can usually muddle my way through creating a regular expression but this one has me stumped (even with Expresso). I need to search through the contents of a text box and find each word in an HTML doc, but avoid the text within the tags. I have a Regex that works fine in a plain text file, but not in a doc with tags. Example: <li>List Item</li> I'd want to find "List" and "Item" but not "li" or "/li" If anyone has a Regex pattern that does this I'd love to see it, with thanks.
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I can usually muddle my way through creating a regular expression but this one has me stumped (even with Expresso). I need to search through the contents of a text box and find each word in an HTML doc, but avoid the text within the tags. I have a Regex that works fine in a plain text file, but not in a doc with tags. Example: <li>List Item</li> I'd want to find "List" and "Item" but not "li" or "/li" If anyone has a Regex pattern that does this I'd love to see it, with thanks.
Alan, try this. The code originally came from the netSpell library, so i'm not 100% it works correctly...
Private _htmlRegex As Regex = New Regex("</[c-g\d]+>|</[i-o\d]+>|</[a\d]+>|</[q-z\d]+>|<[cg]+[^>]*>|<[i-o]+[^>]*>|<[q-z]+[^>]*>|<[a]+[^>]*>|<(\[^\]*\|'[^']*'|[^'\>])*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or RegexOptions.Compiled)"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"
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Alan, try this. The code originally came from the netSpell library, so i'm not 100% it works correctly...
Private _htmlRegex As Regex = New Regex("</[c-g\d]+>|</[i-o\d]+>|</[a\d]+>|</[q-z\d]+>|<[cg]+[^>]*>|<[i-o]+[^>]*>|<[q-z]+[^>]*>|<[a]+[^>]*>|<(\[^\]*\|'[^']*'|[^'\>])*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or RegexOptions.Compiled)"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"
Just ran it thru Expresso. It actually finds the tags, not the text between them. I have a Regex for stripping html, but I think this one might work better. So I can still use it. Thanks! Hadn't thought about it before but I've got a copy of NetSpell somewhere. I'll poke around inside and see what I can see. AB
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Just ran it thru Expresso. It actually finds the tags, not the text between them. I have a Regex for stripping html, but I think this one might work better. So I can still use it. Thanks! Hadn't thought about it before but I've got a copy of NetSpell somewhere. I'll poke around inside and see what I can see. AB
Didn't find a Regex I could adapt in the NetSpell files. Will keep hammering on the thing. I keep thinking I'm missing something obvious but don't know yet what it is.