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Mark
Mark

Reputation: 704

How to get content between tags inside a variable in VBS

I have a variable filled with structured HTML content (a web site content) and I simply want to get content from a "div" called article and it looks like;

     <article>
html stuff here html stuff here html stuff here html stuff here
html stuff here html stuff here html stuff here html stuff here

            </article>

I'm trying with:

Dim url

url="myUrl"

Set objXML = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")

Set myDiv = New RegExp
With myDiv
    .Pattern    = "<article>.*</article>"
    .IgnoreCase = True
    .Global     = false
End With

objXML.Open "GET", url, False
    objXML.Send("")
    html= objXML.responseText


    Set objMatch = myDiv.Execute(html)

    for each x in objMatch
        WScript.Echo objMatch.Item(0)
    next




or .Pattern    = "#<article>([^<]*)</article>#'"
or .Pattern    = "<article>([^<]*)</article>'"

With no luck, any suggestion?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 226

Answers (1)

MattSizzle
MattSizzle

Reputation: 3175

Use this Regex

(?<=\<article\>)([\s\S]*)(?=\<\/article>)

REGEX101

Example (not-tested)

Set myDiv = New RegExp
With myDiv
    .Pattern    = "(?<=\<article\>)([\s\S]*)(?=\<\/article>)"
    .IgnoreCase = True
    .Global     = false
End With

Upvotes: 1

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