parsing HTML programmatically

[unklevo@gmail.com]

Is there an easy way to convert HTML that comes from database as a
string into text and display it on winform...

Thanks.

[Mike Labosh]

Re: parsing HTML programmaticall y

A year ago I wrote a spider that crawls around http://www.wtng.info and
extracts all the country codes, country names, and telephone numbering
information. I haven't looked at it since then, but I think this is the
utility function I made that strips all HTML tags from a string leaving only
the text:

Use it like this:

'...get your data first
Dim htmlText As String = 'wherever you got your html text

' This will keep extra empty lines
Dim textOnly As String = stripHTML(htmlT ext, True)

' This will remove [most] extra empty lines
Dim textOnly As String = stripHTML(htmlT ext, False)

For this function to compile, you must Import
System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .

Private Function stripHTML( _
ByVal html As String, _
ByVal keepCRLF As Boolean _
) As String

' isolates a value between HTML tags and other control chars

Dim rxDrop As New Regex("(\<[^\>]+)\>(\r\n)*")
Dim rxKeep As New Regex("(\<[^\>]+)\>")

If keepCRLF Then
Return rxKeep.Replace( html, "").Trim()
Else
Return rxDrop.Replace( html, "").Trim()
End If

End Function


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Peace & happy computing,

Mike Labosh, MCSD
"Musha ring dum a doo dum a da!" -- James Hetfield
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