Question about regular expressions

[Terry Olsen]

In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
between each word "characters " and the first "&nbsp" after "characters ".

There can be any number of these patterns in the page. I believe I would
use the MatchCollection class. But I'm having difficulty forming the
RegularExpressi on.

Thanks for any help.



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[Wicksy]

Re: Question about regular expressions

how about:
expression = "characters.*&n bsp"

that's a full stop (period) and an asterisk inbetween the search strings -
which basically means "anything inbetween characters and &nbsp".


"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotma il.com> wrote in message
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> In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
> between each word "characters " and the first "&nbsp" after "characters ".
>
> There can be any number of these patterns in the page. I believe I would
> use the MatchCollection class. But I'm having difficulty forming the
> RegularExpressi on.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
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[Phill. W]

Re: Question about regular expressions

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotma il.com> wrote in message
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> In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
> between each word "characters " and the first "&nbsp" after
> "characters ".[/color]

I'm no expert, but I /think/ this should do the trick ...

"characters(.*) &nbsp"

HTH,
Phill W.