Vb.net Regex

[clnorris]

Hello, I am brand new to this forum. I have a problem I am hoping you all can help me on. Okay here we go, I have code that opens a website and takes the code (html) from the website and stores it in a string. What I am needing help with is to find a specific line and remove everything else and then find a specific word in that line and remove everything else and then store that in a variable, what i have now doesn't work but you can see what i am doing wrong?

Dim titlepattern As String = "(\bvalue='<match>')"

i am using REGEX, and what I am trying to do is find the line that is exactly as follows <input type=hidden name=username value=clnorris> and i want it to extract the word clnorris and store it as a variable. Can you help?

thank you

[Killer42]

Hello, I am brand new to this forum. I have a problem I am hoping you all can help me on. Okay here we go, I have code that opens a website and takes the code (html) from the website and stores it in a string. What I am needing help with is to find a specific line and remove everything else and then find a specific word in that line and remove everything else and then store that in a variable, what i have now doesn't work but you can see what i am doing wrong?

Dim titlepattern As String = "(\bvalue='<match>')"

i am using REGEX, and what I am trying to do is find the line that is exactly as follows <input type=hidden name=username value=clnorris> and i want it to extract the word clnorris and store it as a variable. Can you help?

If you're saying that only the actual value after "value=" varies, then you could just use Instr() function to find it. For example...

Dim WhereItIs As Long, WhereItEnds As Long
Dim strValue As String
Dim strSearch As String
Dim L As Long
StrSearch = "<input type=hidden name=username value="
L = Len(strSearch)
WhereItIs = Instr(ThePage, strSearch)
If WhereItIs > 0 Then
  WhereItIs = WhereItIs + L
  WhereItEnds = Instr(WhereItIs, ThePage, ">")
  If WhereItEnds > 0 Then
    strValue = Mid$(ThePage, WhereItStarts, (WhereItEnds - WhereItStarts - 1)
  End If
End If

This is just off the top of my head, untested, and frankly pretty ugly code. But it should come pretty close to working.