How to capture text inside <tags> , but by excluding the tags from result?

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In Visual Basic I am trying to get text between tags but TAGS are also captured.

I want to see the result as ONLY "Captured Text" in message box.

But result is coming as "Captured Text" with both tags before and after .

What is wrong in my code?

What I have tried:

Public Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim pattern As String = "<tag>(.+?)<\/tag>"

Dim text As String = "Other Text <tag>Captured Text Other Text"

Dim capture As Match = Regex.Match(text, pattern)

MsgBox(capture.Value)

End Sub

Posted 27-Oct-17 5:04am

Damla Yuksel

Updated 28-Oct-17 0:56am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2017-10-27T06:04:00

Solution 1

A regex captures the text you told it to - which in your case includes teh tags.
You can use an non-capturing prefix and suffix:

(?<=<tag>)(.+?)(?=<\/tag>)

But if you are trying to process HTML, I'd recommend a proper parser instead: Html Agility Pack | HAP[^] is a good start.

Posted 27-Oct-17 6:04am

OriginalGriff

Damla Yuksel · Answer 2 · 2017-10-28T00:56:00

Solution 2

I found the solution

I must use Groups(1) for getting only text inside tags ..This is the solution..

Posted 28-Oct-17 0:56am

Damla Yuksel