Question

I need to filter the first datetime or that line after ‘Report Date’ which is ’25/01/2011 2:23 AM’ in the sample below. Can anyone help??

<td colspan="2">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" lang="en-AU">
<tr>
<td class="a31" style="WIDTH:39.50mm;word-wrap:break-word;HEIGHT:4.00mm;">Report Date</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" lang="en-AU">
<tr>
<td class="a10" style="WIDTH:48.00mm;word-wrap:break-word;HEIGHT:4.00mm;">25/01/2011 2:23 AM</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td colspan="11">
</td>

Answer 1

Just use the Html Agility Pack instead. Using a RegEx for this special case might work, but long term is not really maintainable.

For your example this would work:

HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load("test.html"); // path to your HTML file
var node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//td[@class='a10']");
string myDateString = node.InnerText;