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Question about regular expressions

In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
between each word "characters" and the first "&nbsp" after "characters".

There can be any number of these patterns in the page. I believe I would
use the MatchCollection class. But I'm having difficulty forming the
RegularExpression.

Thanks for any help.

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Nov 21 '05 #1
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how about:
expression = "characters.*&nbsp"

that's a full stop (period) and an asterisk inbetween the search strings -
which basically means "anything inbetween characters and &nbsp".
"Terry Olsen" <to******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
between each word "characters" and the first "&nbsp" after "characters".

There can be any number of these patterns in the page. I believe I would
use the MatchCollection class. But I'm having difficulty forming the
RegularExpression.

Thanks for any help.

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Nov 21 '05 #2
"Terry Olsen" <to******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Oo**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
In parsing a string that contains HTML, I need to return the text
between each word "characters" and the first "&nbsp" after
"characters".


I'm no expert, but I /think/ this should do the trick ...

"characters(.*)&nbsp"

HTH,
Phill W.
Nov 21 '05 #3

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