Reputation: 11
I am trying to extract text from a text file but the length of the text to collect varies in length. This is my first attemt at using RegEx and could use some sugestions
Here is the Source text. I am trying to extract.parse the Name, Email, Birthdat & Phone Number only. Any help would be appreciated.
Basic data
</td><td align="left" width="10" style="padding:0; margin:0;"> </td><td align="left" width="290" style="padding:0;"> </td></tr><tr><td align="right" width="250" style="padding-bottom:8px; margin:0; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">
Name:
</td><td align="left" width="10" style="padding:0; margin:0;"> </td><td align="left" width="290" style="color: #262626; padding-bottom:8px ; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">Test User3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" width="250" style="padding-bottom:8px; margin:0; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">
Email:
</td><td align="left" width="10" style="padding:0; margin:0;"> </td><td align="left" width="290" style="color: #262626; padding-bottom:8px ; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;"><span style="color: #262626; text-decoration:none;">[email protected]</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="3" height="20" width="100%" style="color: #262626; padding:0; margin:0; line-height:20px;"> </td></tr><tr><td align="right" width="250" style="padding-bottom:8px; margin:0; color: #002a5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">
Custom data
</td><td align="left" width="10" style="padding:0; margin:0;"> </td><td align="left" width="290" style="padding:0;"> </td></tr><tr><td align="right" width="250" style="padding-bottom:8px; margin:0; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">ref:
</td><td align="left" width="10" style="padding:0; margin:0;"> </td><td align="left" width="290" style="color: #262626; padding-bottom:8px ; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">06/16/1963</td></tr><tr><td align="right" width="250" style="padding-bottom:8px; margin:0; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">cellphone:
</td><td align="left" width="10" style="padding:0; margin:0;"> </td><td align="left" width="290" style="color: #262626; padding-bottom:8px ; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">6152498588</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="3" height="20" width="100%" style="color: #262626; padding:0; margin:0; line-height:20px;"> </td></tr><tr><td align="right" width="250" style="padding-bottom:8px; margin:0; color: #002a5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">
Thanx in advance,
Doug
Upvotes: 0
Views: 153
Reputation: 43559
Use the HTML Agility Pack instead. Parsing HTML with regex is a bad thing, except for very specific cases.
Upvotes: 2