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c#regexanchor
gipo
gipo

Reputation: 19

Regex to get text After anchor tag C#

I have a C# Regex as follows:

Regex r = new Regex(@"(?<value1>.*?)<a.*?href=(""|')(?<href>.*?)(""|').*?>(?<value2>.*?)</a>(?<value3>.*?)");

I can get text for value1, href, value2 perfect. However, value3 is always "".

What am I missing to get the text that comes after the anchor closing tag().

Upvotes: 0

Views: 935

Answers (1)

hwnd
hwnd

Reputation: 70722

You wouldn't return a null value if you would use a Parser instead, since parsing HTML with regular expression is not the best way to approach this. But to fix the issue, remove the non-greedy quantifier from the end of your expression making it greedy (matching the most amount possible).

(?<value3>.*?)
            ^ Remove non-greedy quantifier

And make it greedy:

(?<value3>.*)

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Upvotes: 6

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