i'm trying to get some information of a webpage via regex on visual basic 2010
it's something like this:
<SPAN CLASS="clear"></SPAN>
<h2> blabla </h2>
<h2> blabla </h2>
<b> blabla </b>
etc etc
<SPAN CLASS="clear"></SPAN>
what i want is everything between the 2 also the h2 tags and every other html tag that exists.
is this possible?
i've already tried (.?) and . and \w* but it doesn't return anything...
It's probably best to use an XML parser for that, but I'm assuming it's a one-off scrape or similar.
If I understand you correctly, this should get all the data between the tags:
Dim regex As New Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<.*?>", RegexOptions.Singleline)
Dim result As String = regex.Replace(yourHtml, String.Empty)
You could use this to get just the H2 tags and data:
Dim regex As New Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<\s*h2[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*/\s*h2>", RegexOptions.Singleline)
Dim results As New Text.StringBuilder
For Each m As Text.RegularExpressions.Match In regex.Matches(yourHtml)
results.Append(m.Value)
Next
alundy already have good answer, yet you can try this one too.
Dim findtext2 As String = "(?<=<h2>)(.*?)(?=</h2>)"
Dim myregex2 As String = TextBox1.Text 'Your HTML code
Dim doregex2 As MatchCollection = Regex.Matches(myregex2, findtext2)
Dim matches2 As String = ""
For Each match2 As Match In doregex2
matches2 = matches2 + match2.ToString + Environment.NewLine
Next
MsgBox(matches2) 'Results
Don't forget Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions.
Above code is getting all information between 2 strings, in this case - <h2> and </h2>. You can use whatever you want (it doesn't need to be tag, not even html).