I'm parsing through the HTML for an nba box score looking to pull out
the officials' names, but the regex expression I'm using is pulling
out the officials and all the code after the officials, which I don't
need.

So here's my regex:
"Officials:.*/td>"

and here's the HTML I'm getting back:
"Officials:#24 Mike Callahan, #9 Derrick Stafford,
#54&nbsp;Derrick&nbsp;Collins</td><td
align=\"right\">Attendance:&nbsp;14796</td></tr></table><!-- End Game
Info table --><!-- START Visitor player Stats team table --><table
width.......

This goes on for pages and pages.

I only want from "Officials" to the first "/td>" and I'm pretty sure
it's the * in my regex that's messing it up, but I'm not sure how to
fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Use the lazy quantifier *? instead of greedy quantifier *

"Officials:.*?/td>"

This will stop at the first occurrence of /td> rather than the last.

Brian Davis
http://www.knowdotnet.com


"Oren Liebermann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm parsing through the HTML for an nba box score looking to pull out
> the officials' names, but the regex expression I'm using is pulling
> out the officials and all the code after the officials, which I don't
> need.
>
> So here's my regex:
> "Officials:.*/td>"
>
> and here's the HTML I'm getting back:
> "Officials:#24&nbsp;Mike&nbsp;Callahan, #9&nbsp;Derrick&nbsp;Stafford,
> #54&nbsp;Derrick&nbsp;Collins</td><td
> align=\"right\">Attendance:&nbsp;14796</td></tr></table><!-- End Game
> Info table --><!-- START Visitor player Stats team table --><table
> width.......
>
> This goes on for pages and pages.
>
> I only want from "Officials" to the first "/td>" and I'm pretty sure
> it's the * in my regex that's messing it up, but I'm not sure how to
> fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!