How to capture URLs in HTML file

[hdbbdh]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to capture URLs in HTML file which appears like

<a[string]href[space(s) or nothing]=[space(s) or nothing]["][URL]["][string]>

I found this code but it does not work well.

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim rx As New Regex("[<]a[\s][\w\W]*[href=](?<word>\S*)[\s\W\w]*[>]", _
RegexOptions.Compiled Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
Dim text As String = "<a href=http:// name=as>"
Dim matches As MatchCollection = rx.Matches(text)
For Each m As Match In matches
MsgBox(m.Groups("word").Value)
Next
End Sub
End Class

Thank You

[Plater]

Assuming the regex matches your given pattern it would probably work.
But remember, not all websites are built with " in the href field (they should be, but aren't)
You might find a single quote ' or no quoting at all

[hdbbdh]

Hello everyone,
Thank you Plater for your answer and your important tip.
I make some modifications in the code and it must be work, but finaly I got only the last URL, then can you help me in this.

Dim sr As New StreamReader("c:\cas.html")
Dim text As String = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()
text = text.Replace(Chr(13), "")
text = text.Replace("  ", " ")
Dim spattern As String = "<\s*a\s+[\w\W]*href\s*=[\s'" & Chr(34) & "]*(?<word>[^" & Chr(34) & "'\s]+)[\s\S\W\w]*[>]"
Dim rx As New Regex(spattern, _
RegexOptions.Compiled Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
Dim matches As MatchCollection = rx.Matches(text)
For Each m As Match In matches
    ListBox1.Items.Add(m.Groups("word").Value)
Next

The html page that I use is attached, and if you try this code for this page you will get contact.htm

Thank you

[hdbbdh]

I think I found the solution

Dim sr As New StreamReader("c:\cas.html")
Dim text As String = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()
text = text.Replace(Chr(13), "")
Do While InStr(text, "  ")
    text = text.Replace("  ", " ")
Loop
Dim spattern As String = "<\s*a\s+[^>]*href\s*=[\s'" & Chr(34) & "]*(?<word>[^" & Chr(34) & "'\s]+)[^>]*>"
For Each m As Match In Regex.Matches(text, spattern, RegexOptions.Compiled Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
    ListBox1.Items.Add(m.Groups("word").Value)
Next

The problem is that when I use \W\w its include > symbol.

Thank you

[raids51]

wouldnt it be easier to use the mshtml class?