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Asked: 2026-05-21T14:28:30+00:00

I’m using regular expressions to extract data from a page controlled by another group

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I’m using regular expressions to extract data from a page controlled by another group in my organization. The basic structure follows the same pattern:

<td><strong>Text I'm looking for</strong>...<a href="Link I'm also looking for"></a></td>

I am able to successfully grab the desired data with 

<td><strong>(?<title>.*?)</strong>(.*?)<a href="(?<link>.*?)">(.*?)</a></td>

However I occasionally run into a group that looks like

<td><strong>Text I'm </strong><strong>looking for</strong>...<a href="Link I'm also looking for"></a></td>

Is there a regular expression to handle this? It would preferably combine the two blocks automatically but I could combine them manually if necessary.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using regular expressions to parse HTML is difficult and not safe. There is a .NET library that can help you with this: Html Agility Pack ( http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/)
    (it supports XPATH and XSLT)

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