Stripping content delimited by two tags

[Ken Fine]

Let's suppose I scrape the content of a remote page and stuff it in variable
strString.

And suppose the web person had the forsight to label a certain section of
the page content as follows

<contentarea>

[a bunch of content here]

</contentarea>

How could you use ASP string parsing functions to extract the content
between <contentarea> and </contentarea> from strString?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Ryan N.]

Well...you could use Regular Expressions or a combination of INSTR and MID.

 

[Ray at]

iStart = InStr(theSource, "<contentarea>")
iStop = InStr(theSource, "</contentarea>")

sContent = Mid(theSource, iStart + Len("<contentarea>"), iStop - iStart -
Len("</contentarea>") + 1)

That would be a basic way to do it.

Ray at work

 

[Ken Fine]

Thanks again, Ray.

-KF

iStart = InStr(theSource, "<contentarea>")
iStop = InStr(theSource, "</contentarea>")

sContent = Mid(theSource, iStart + Len("<contentarea>"), iStop - iStart -
Len("</contentarea>") + 1)

That would be a basic way to do it.

Ray at work

Let's suppose I scrape the content of a remote page and stuff it in variable
strString.

And suppose the web person had the forsight to label a certain section of
the page content as follows

<contentarea>

[a bunch of content here]

</contentarea>

How could you use ASP string parsing functions to extract the content
between <contentarea> and </contentarea> from strString?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Manohar Kamath [MVP]]

Ray,

Another way to do this would be to use two splits:

arFirst = Split(theSource, "<contentarea>")
content = Split(arFirst(1), "</contentarea>")(0)

--
Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netBooks
www.dotnetbooks.com

iStart = InStr(theSource, "<contentarea>")
iStop = InStr(theSource, "</contentarea>")

sContent = Mid(theSource, iStart + Len("<contentarea>"), iStop - iStart -
Len("</contentarea>") + 1)

That would be a basic way to do it.

Ray at work

Let's suppose I scrape the content of a remote page and stuff it in variable
strString.

And suppose the web person had the forsight to label a certain section of
the page content as follows

<contentarea>

[a bunch of content here]

</contentarea>

How could you use ASP string parsing functions to extract the content
between <contentarea> and </contentarea> from strString?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Ray at]

As Manohar pointed out, what I posted is just one way of many though!

Ray at work