Regular Expression that matchs more than one condtion

[Earl Teigrob]

I am parsing HTML and have source text like this

<A,A>

that I would like to retreive all of the "A"s from using an expression like

<[^>]*?(?<content>A)[^>]*?>

Even though this will technically match both A's, it only returns the first
one. How can I return both "A"s

Thanks

Earl

[Brian Davis]

Try this:

<((?<content>A)|[^>])*>

You can iterate through the Captures collection of the named group 'content'
to get each A.
Alternatively, I think you could use:

(?<=<[^>]*)A(?=[^>]*)

With this, you iterate through the Matches in MatchCollection to get each A.

Brian Davis
http://www.knowdotnet.com


"Earl Teigrob" <ea******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I am parsing HTML and have source text like this

<A,A>

that I would like to retreive all of the "A"s from using an expression like
<[^>]*?(?<content>A)[^>]*?>

Even though this will technically match both A's, it only returns the first one. How can I return both "A"s

Thanks

Earl

[Earl Teigrob]

Thanks Brian, That worked perfectly. In fact, I decided I had better read
my regular expressions book so I can really get a grip on this stuff

Earl
"Brian Davis" <br***@knowdotnet.nospam.com> wrote in message
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Try this:

<((?<content>A)|[^>])*>

You can iterate through the Captures collection of the named group 'content' to get each A.
Alternatively, I think you could use:

(?<=<[^>]*)A(?=[^>]*)

With this, you iterate through the Matches in MatchCollection to get each A.
Brian Davis
http://www.knowdotnet.com


"Earl Teigrob" <ea******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

I am parsing HTML and have source text like this

<A,A>

that I would like to retreive all of the "A"s from using an expression

like

<[^>]*?(?<content>A)[^>]*?>

Even though this will technically match both A's, it only returns the

first

one. How can I return both "A"s

Thanks

Earl