Question about regular expressions

[Terry Olsen]

In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
between each word "characters" and the first "&nbsp" after "characters".

There can be any number of these patterns in the page. I believe I would
use the MatchCollection class. But I'm having difficulty forming the
RegularExpression.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Wicksy]

how about:
expression = "characters.*&nbsp"

that's a full stop (period) and an asterisk inbetween the search strings -
which basically means "anything inbetween characters and &nbsp".

 

[Phill. W]

In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
between each word "characters" and the first "&nbsp" after
"characters".

I'm no expert, but I /think/ this should do the trick ...

"characters(.*)&nbsp"

HTH,
Phill W.