Regex to retain only the HTML body

**Nikola Stjelja** · Apr 1 '08, 09:45 AM

Re: Regex to retain only the HTML body

Karch wrote:

If you run this:
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string result = "<html><hea d></head><body>The body</body></html>";
result = retainBody.Repl ace(result, "$1");
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With the following Regex:
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private static readonly Regex retainBody = new
Regex(@"<\s*bod y[^>]*>(.*)<[\s/]*body[^>]*>", RegexOptions.Co mpiled |
RegexOptions.Ig noreCase | RegexOptions.Si ngleline);
>
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You get this as the return:
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<html><head></head>The body</html>
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I want this instead:
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The body
>
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Try this

string result = "<html><hea d></head><body>The body</body></html>";
Regex reg = new
Regex(@"<\s*bod y[^>]*>(?<body>(.*)) <[\s/]*body[^>]*>");
Match body=reg.Match( result);
Console.WriteLi ne(body.Groups["body"].ToString());

Regex to retain only the HTML body

Regex to retain only the HTML body

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