C# regular expression for splitting out html

Question

1.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

Hi guys,

I'm hoping someone wouldn't mind writing me a complex regular expression, preferably in c# for splitting html text.

basically looking for an array that contains all the formatting tags as strings in the array and also every separate word. Maintaining the order of the words is important

This may not be possible but if it is i could use some assistance.

Thanks
Carl

Posted 21-Jul-14 4:26am

Carl Mailey

Add a Solution

Comments

Christian Amado 21-Jul-14 10:28am

What did you try?

PIEBALDconsult 21-Jul-14 11:00am

http://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-07-21T04:46:00

Don't do it - it's pretty horrible, and far, far too easy to break. And far, far to complicated to fix! :laugh:

Look at parsing it properly instead - there are some good ones out there, but this one will get you started: Parsing HTML Tags in C#[^]
Or this: Another C# Legacy HTML Parser Using Tag Processing[^]
Or this: AfterWork HTML Parser in C#[^]
Or this: HTML Meta Tag Parser[^]
Depending on what exactly you are trying to do.