String.Split function's limitation?

Varad

I'm trying to break this html statement at the ""

 <a href='www.link1.com'>Link1</a> <a
href='www.link2.com'>Link2</a> <a
href='www.link3.com'>Link3</a>

If I use string.split command, it splits based on the first "<" in ""
and not the whole . It works fine with single delimter like commas,
colons etc.. Is there another way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

V

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Peter Rilling

Use a regular expression.

"Varad" <va******@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to break this html statement at the ""

 <a href='www.link1.com'>Link1</a> <a
href='www.link2.com'>Link2</a> <a
href='www.link3.com'>Link3</a>

If I use string.split command, it splits based on the first "<" in "" and not the whole . It works fine with single delimter like commas,
colons etc.. Is there another way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

V

Jul 21 '05 #2

Varad

Hi Peter,
Can you give me some hints on how to do regular expressions in my case?

Thanks.

"Peter Rilling" wrote:

Use a regular expression.

"Varad" <va******@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:EC**********************************@microsof t.com...
I'm trying to break this html statement at the ""

 <a href='www.link1.com'>Link1</a> <a
href='www.link2.com'>Link2</a> <a
href='www.link3.com'>Link3</a>

If I use string.split command, it splits based on the first "<" in

""
and not the whole . It works fine with single delimter like commas,
colons etc.. Is there another way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

V

Jul 21 '05 #3

prakash

Hi varad
Try this cod
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dim svlTemp As String = " <a href='www.link1.com'>Link1</a> <a
href='www.link2.com'>Link2</a> <a
href='www.link3.com'>Link3</a>"
Dim svlArray() As String
Dim objSplit As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex
svlArray = objSplit.Split(svlTemp, "",
RegexOptions.Singleline Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or RegexOptions.Multiline)

For Each ArrValue As String In svlArray
MsgBox(ArrValue)
Nex
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This examble uses simple regular expressions.
for detaild info plese refer the following locations.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...xpressions.asp

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html

String.split function is to split the strings by a single charactor.

consider
svlTemp = "hai,bie:see(yiu"
u want to split it to hai & bye & see & you
u can use
svlTemp.split(",:(".toCharArray()) it splits the the svlTemp into above
requirement

Regards
Prakash

Jul 21 '05 #4

Varad

THanks a lot Prakash. It worked! I greatly appreciate your help.

V

"prakash" wrote:

Hi varad
Try this code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dim svlTemp As String = " <a href='www.link1.com'>Link1</a> <a
href='www.link2.com'>Link2</a> <a
href='www.link3.com'>Link3</a>"
Dim svlArray() As String
Dim objSplit As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex
svlArray = objSplit.Split(svlTemp, "",
RegexOptions.Singleline Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or RegexOptions.Multiline)

For Each ArrValue As String In svlArray
MsgBox(ArrValue)
Next
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This examble uses simple regular expressions.
for detaild info plese refer the following locations.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...xpressions.asp

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html

String.split function is to split the strings by a single charactor.

consider
svlTemp = "hai,bie:see(yiu"
u want to split it to hai & bye & see & you
u can use
svlTemp.split(",:(".toCharArray()) it splits the the svlTemp into above
requirement

Regards
Prakash

Jul 21 '05 #5

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