Question

I am trying to capture urls in an html page that is being repeated and it usually works when the urls are on different lines but in this case they appear all in one line and separate lines. The url has the tags:
http://something/profile’>
Here is what I have been trying

Dim regex As Regex = New Regex( _
                            ".*<a.*href='http://(?<Link>.*?)/profile'>", _
                            RegexOptions.IgnoreCase _
                            Or RegexOptions.CultureInvariant _
                            Or RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace _
                            Or RegexOptions.Compiled _
                            )


            Dim ms As MatchCollection = regex.Matches(_html)
            Dim url As String = String.Empty
            For Each m As Match In ms
                url = m.Groups("Link").Value.ToLower

Any ideas appreciated.

Answer 1

You may need to add RegexOptions.SingleLine. From the docs:

Specifies single-line mode. Changes
the meaning of the dot (.) so it
matches every character (instead of
every character except \n).