Regular Expressions Extract Anchor Text

Posted By: yman | May 7th, 2006 @ 11:00 AM
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#May 7th, 2006 @ 11:00 AM
yman
yman
Would anyone kindly share a .NET regular expression sequence which can extract the text element from an anchor tag.

Example:

<a href="url">I want this</a>


I dont know what the url would be, but I would like to extract the text element from the anchor tag.
#May 8th, 2006 @ 12:04 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!
string text = "<a href='url'>I want this</a>";
Regex anchorTextExtractor = new Regex("<a[^>]*>(?'extract' .*?)</a>");
Match m = anchorTextExtractor.Match(text);
if (m.Success)
{
   string extract = m.Groups["extract"].Value;
}
#May 8th, 2006 @ 1:56 AM
yman
yman
Thanks old boy.
I will check this out when I get home from school  Smiley
#May 8th, 2006 @ 3:56 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!
Old? Who are you calling old? I'm not old. I'm still hip, I'm still cool. You youngsters have no respect for people like me anymore. When I was younger, we respected people like me.
#May 8th, 2006 @ 3:59 AM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
TommyCarlier wrote:
Old? Who are you calling old? I'm not old. I'm still hip, I'm still cool. You youngsters have no respect for people like me anymore. When I was younger, we respected people like me.


Ah shove it!
#May 8th, 2006 @ 6:25 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!
I'm warning you! I might call the hair cut police, w-three-bbo!
#May 17th, 2006 @ 6:32 PM
nefis
nefis
TommyCarlier wrote:
Old? Who are you calling old? I'm not old. I'm still hip, I'm still cool. You youngsters have no respect for people like me anymore. When I was younger, we respected people like me.


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=old+boy
#Dec 12th, 2007 @ 7:30 PM
nimarii
nimarii

i'm totally new to regex, and am having a bit of trouble with getting the regex for this:

[<label class='AHelement' value='Iwantthisvalue'>Some value</label>]

if anyone could help i'd greatly appreciate it!!

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