Parsing HTML pages

10 Mar 2006 10:38 PM

MisterKen

If I have the html from webpage loaded into a string. How would I use regex
to return sections from within that html string?

I want to be able to get the "text" back between two different tags.
Basically I want to scrape some web pages and populate a database.

Does anybody have a snippet of code that could me out get the "text"?

11 Mar 2006 10:33 AM

Nick Hounsome

"MisterKen" <Mister***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If I have the html from webpage loaded into a string. How would I use
> regex
> to return sections from within that html string?
>
> I want to be able to get the "text" back between two different tags.
> Basically I want to scrape some web pages and populate a database.
>
> Does anybody have a snippet of code that could me out get the "text"?

Is it XHTML? If so you can just read it as an XmlDocument.

12 Mar 2006 6:30 AM

Alvin Bruney - ASP.NET MVP

have a look at regexlib.com, they have several expressions that you can
modify.

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> "MisterKen" <Mister***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:538B602D-D2A2-417D-B777-278C67C6BCDA@microsoft.com...
> > If I have the html from webpage loaded into a string. How would I use
> > regex
> > to return sections from within that html string?
> >
> > I want to be able to get the "text" back between two different tags.
> > Basically I want to scrape some web pages and populate a database.
> >
> > Does anybody have a snippet of code that could me out get the "text"?
>
> Is it XHTML? If so you can just read it as an XmlDocument.
>
>