Regular Experssion Question - Visual Basic .NET

pmclinn

I'm trying to understand how to parse text that contains line breaks.
Below I have some html code that I'm trying to parse using a regular
expression. The problem is that my expression works on all tags
[] that do not include linebreaks.

I wrote this regular expersion that is almost perfect.
"<span\sclass="tableListing-*.*"

Results of regex:

Tue, 11/08/05 03:00 PM
Nine Inch Nails
<a href="/venue/8337">TD Banknorth
Garden (formerly Fleetcenter)</a> Boston, MA
Tue, 11/08/05 07:00 PM

but.... I'm missing this line...:


<a
href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003AEF87773082?artistid=735762&majorcatid=10001& minorcatid=60"
class="findTickets">Find Tickets</a>on sale now

<----Missing end>

</
Here is the raw code:
<tr>
<td class="left">
Tue, 11/08/05 07:00
PM</td>
<td class="center">
Nine Inch
Nails</td>
<td class="center">
<a
href="/venue/8337">TD Banknorth Garden (formerly Fleetcenter)</a>
Boston, MA</td>
<td class="right" nowrap="nowrap">

<a
href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003AEF87773082?artistid=735762&majorcatid=10001& minorcatid=60"
class="findTickets">Find Tickets</a>on sale now
</td>
</tr>

Nov 23 '05 #1

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Boni

Maybe
"yourOptions or RegexOptions.Multiline" is what you are missing?
"pmclinn" <pm*****@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I'm trying to understand how to parse text that contains line breaks.
Below I have some html code that I'm trying to parse using a regular
expression. The problem is that my expression works on all tags
[] that do not include linebreaks.

I wrote this regular expersion that is almost perfect.
"<span\sclass="tableListing-*.*"

Results of regex:

Tue, 11/08/05 03:00 PM
Nine Inch Nails
<a href="/venue/8337">TD Banknorth
Garden (formerly Fleetcenter)</a> Boston, MA
Tue, 11/08/05 07:00 PM

but.... I'm missing this line...:


<a
href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003AEF87773082?artistid=735762&majorcatid=10001& minorcatid=60"
class="findTickets">Find Tickets</a>on sale now

<----Missing end>

</
Here is the raw code:
<tr>
<td class="left">
Tue, 11/08/05 07:00
PM</td>
<td class="center">
Nine Inch
Nails</td>
<td class="center">
<a
href="/venue/8337">TD Banknorth Garden (formerly Fleetcenter)</a>
Boston, MA</td>
<td class="right" nowrap="nowrap">

<a
href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003AEF87773082?artistid=735762&majorcatid=10001& minorcatid=60"
class="findTickets">Find Tickets</a>on sale now
</td>
</tr>

Nov 23 '05 #2

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