get inner content with regular expression

[Sami]

How can I get the inner content of a tag with regular expression

I couldn't the the opening and closing tags to match properly

Input
"fjkdjfkdj <div>sadfdf dfdf <b>dfd</b>dfdf<div>nested<div>tags</div>.</div>
</div>dfdfdf"

Get content of the first div tag

Output
"sadfdf dfdf <b>dfd</b>dfdf<div>nested<div>tags</div>.</div> "


thank you
Sami

 

[maximz2005]

How can I get the inner content of a tag with regular expression

I couldn't the the opening and closing tags to match properly

Input
"fjkdjfkdj <div>sadfdf dfdf <b>dfd</b>dfdf<div>nested<div>tags</div>.</div>
</div>dfdfdf"

Get content of the first div tag

Output
"sadfdf dfdf <b>dfd</b>dfdf<div>nested<div>tags</div>.</div> "

thank you
Sami

There is no way to do it using regular expressions other than
hardcoding it as there are numerous <div> and </div> tags in the main
<div> tag. In the program I'm building right now, I use regex to find
the content between two tags in html (if it were xml it would be much
easier!), but i don't have multiple tags with the same name.
Now, if your content is xml (it can be html but it must be well-
formed), there is a much easier approach. You just read it as an xml
document and you search for the correct tag node. Very simple. (To see
if your html fits, google well-formed html checker).

 

[Jesse Houwing]

Hello maximz2005,

There is no way to do it using regular expressions other than
hardcoding it as there are numerous <div> and </div> tags in the main
<div> tag. In the program I'm building right now, I use regex to find
the content between two tags in html (if it were xml it would be much
easier!), but i don't have multiple tags with the same name.
Now, if your content is xml (it can be html but it must be well-
formed), there is a much easier approach. You just read it as an xml
document and you search for the correct tag node. Very simple. (To see
if your html fits, google well-formed html checker).

You can use the HTMLAgility pack (on codeplex) to rea the HTML as it were
XML and you could easily get the contents you wanted. You can also use regex
for this, though you'd end up the the more advanced constructs (the hardest
to understand ones) like the balanced group sets. (more info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/15/396452.aspx)