c#.NET get text between body tags of an html file

rhitam30111985

112 New Member

Hi all ,

I am trying to read an html file and retrieve only the text between
the body tags of that file. Now , for reading a string between two
strings , i already have a function :

http://www.mycsharpcorner.com/Post.aspx?postID=15

But the problem is that the body tag might have some attribute. In
that case i dont know how to exclude that and get only the text
between the tags. Ie , something like this :

<body style="margin:0;padding:0">
..
.
.
.
</body>

Any ideas?

Regards,
Rhitam

May 5 '09 #1

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cloud255

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This is just a slight modification on the search algorithm where your start index is not the entire opening tag in this case "<body>" but rather the first occurrence of ">" after the body tag start "<body".

So you need to find the end index of the "<body" string and use this as the start index for your next search in which you will look for the ">" character. This is then the starting index of your actual message.

From this point its fairly straight forward to get the starting index of the closing "</body>" tag.

This is string manipulation which can be done using Regex or the .NET string class.

May 5 '09 #2

r035198x

13,262

MVP

Just use regex.
If you have

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string text = "<body style=\"margin:0;padding:0\">r035198x</body> ";

then

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Regex.Replace(text, "\\</*body.*?>", "");

should do it.

P.S Not tested on C# compiler.

May 5 '09 #3

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