Regular expression question.

[Guoqi Zheng]

Sir,

I am writing a script to remove html tag using Regular expression.

For example, I have a string = "<td class="whatever" width=12>some content
here</td>"

What I want to return is "<td class="whatever" width=12>", I used pattern =
"<td(.*)>"

However instead of returning "<td class="whatever" width=12>"
it returns "<td class="whatever" width=12>some content here</td>"


Below is my code, what did I do wrong here?

Dim webPage As String = GrabUrl()
Dim abc As ArrayList = New ArrayList
RichTextBox1.Text = webPage

Dim TagExpression As New Regex("<td(.*)>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
Dim mc As RegularExpressions.MatchCollection

mc = TagExpression.Matches(webPage)

Dim m As Match

For Each m In mc
abc.Add(m.Groups(0))
Next

ListBox1.DataSource = abc

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Kind regards

Guoqi Zheng
guoqi AT meetholland dot com
Http://www.meetholland.com

 

[Guoqi Zheng]

Got it now..

The pattern should be: (<td.*?\>)

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Kind regards

Guoqi Zheng
guoqi AT meetholland dot com
Http://www.meetholland.com