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Asked: 2026-05-25T20:49:53+00:00

I have a source to a web page and I need to extract the

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I have a source to a web page and I need to extract the body. So anything between </head><body> and </body></html>.

I’ve tried the following with no success: 

var match = Regex.Match(output, @"(?<=\</head\>\<body\>)(.*?)(?=\</body\>\</html\>)");

It finds a string but cuts it off long before </body></html>. I escaped characters based on the RegEx cheat sheet.

What am i missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d recommend using the HtmlAgilityPack instead – parsing HTML with regular expressions is very, very fragile.

    The latest version even supports Linq so you can get your content like this:

    HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument doc = web.Load("http://stackoverflow.com");
string html = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("body").Single().InnerHtml;
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