My Value 1
I need "My Value 1" Please Help Me. C# language
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will the tags always be in the same format (eg 3 layers deep with a tr, a td and a font)chillysapien– chillysapien2010-03-03 16:04:26 +00:00Commented Mar 3, 2010 at 16:04
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What language are you using to parse this?Tom– Tom2010-03-03 16:11:52 +00:00Commented Mar 3, 2010 at 16:11
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As HTML code is very "unpredictable" I would recommend using a HTML parsing kit. Which programming language do you use? In .NET I have used HTML Agility Pack with great success. In Java HTML Parser might be handy (though I have not worked with it yet).
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You cannot properly parse HTML with regular expressions because regexps can't handle the nesting allowed by HTML. To do it properly. For that one line you show, you can use a regexp but you can't count on that line remaining identical so must use SAX/DOM for the task generally.
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Tom
But you can parse a fixed string that happens to be HTML with regular expressions. While there are lots of issues with doing this, they're problems the OP probably doesn't have.
msw
@Tom - agreed. But although the OP doesn't have them today, he might tomorrow and won't be left wondering what happened, hopefully.
I think parsing HTML using Regexes is not a wise idea, as highlighted by spa. A classic previous answer to a similar question is RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
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c# language
string input = "<tr><TD><FONT size=\"2\">My Value 1</FONT></TD></tr>";
string pattern = @"<[^>]*?>";
string output = Regex.Replace(input, pattern, ""); //My Value 1
Just to remove all html tags.
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function stripTags(markup){
return markup.replace(/\s*<[^>]*?>\s*/gim,'');
}
This assumes all you really want is the inner text represented by "My Value 1" above.
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Try:
/<tr>\s*<td>\s*<font.*?>(.*?)<\/font>\s*<\/td>\s*<\/tr>/i
Used in PHP:
<?php
if(preg_match('/<tr>\s*<td>\s*<font.*?>(.*?)<\/font>\s*<\/td>\s*<\/tr>/i',
'<tr><TD><FONT size="2">My Value 1</FONT></TD></tr>',$matches))
echo $matches[1]; // prints My Value 1
?>
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Chicharito
@codaddict i need c# language :-)
if you are using PHP, split on </FONT>
$string='<tr><TD><FONT size="2">My Value 1</FONT></TD></tr>';
$s = explode('</FONT>',$string);
foreach ($s as $v){
if ( strpos($v,"<FONT") !==FALSE) {
$t = explode(">",$v);
print end($t)."\n";
}
}
output
$ php test.php
My Value 1
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in perl I would use
my $string='<tr><TD><FONT size="2">My Value 1</FONT></TD></tr>';
$string =~ m/(<.*?>)*([^<]*)(<.*?>)*/;
print $2;
to get the desired result. The last part is not strictly necessary,
(<.*?>)*([^<]*)
will work as well
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If you want to get the contents within the tags I think the following Regexp is enough:
^<.*>([^<>]+)<.*>$
It will only work if there really is any data between the tags somewhere, otherwise it will give a no-match.
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Chicharito
i need only value "My Value 1"