Question

how to get the href value only from html anchor tag using C#
thank you

string ref="<a href="http://www.google.com"></a>";
//i want get result from 
//string ref like 
//http://www.google.com

Answer 1

If you want to do this without HtmlAgilityPack then you can do this using regular Expression :

 string ref= @"<a href=""http://www.google.com"">test</a>";
 var regex = new Regex("<a [^>]*href=(?:'(?<href>.*?)')|(?:\"(?<href>.*?)\")", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
 var urls = regex.Matches(ref).OfType<Match>().Select(m => m.Groups["href"].Value).SingleOrDefault();

Hope it helps you.