Regular Expression that matchs more than one condtion

[Earl Teigrob]

I am parsing HTML and have source text like this

<A,A>

that I would like to retreive all of the "A"s from using an expression like

<[^>]*?(?<content>A)[^>]*?>

Even though this will technically match both A's, it only returns the first
one. How can I return both "A"s

Thanks

Earl

 

[Brian Davis]

Try this:

<((?<content>A)|[^>])*>

You can iterate through the Captures collection of the named group 'content'
to get each A.


Alternatively, I think you could use:

(?<=<[^>]*)A(?=[^>]*)

With this, you iterate through the Matches in MatchCollection to get each A.



Brian Davis
http://www.knowdotnet.com

 

[Earl Teigrob]

Thanks Brian, That worked perfectly. In fact, I decided I had better read
my regular expressions book so I can really get a grip on this stuff

Earl

Try this:

<((?<content>A)|[^>])*>

You can iterate through the Captures collection of the named group 'content'
to get each A.


Alternatively, I think you could use:

(?<=<[^>]*)A(?=[^>]*)

With this, you iterate through the Matches in MatchCollection to get each A.



Brian Davis
http://www.knowdotnet.com

I am parsing HTML and have source text like this

<A,A>

that I would like to retreive all of the "A"s from using an expression like

<[^>]*?(?<content>A)[^>]*?>

Even though this will technically match both A's, it only returns the first
one. How can I return both "A"s

Thanks

Earl