Question

I’ve been trying to solve these problem for last two hours but seems like I can’t find any solution.

I need to extract links from an HTML file. There are 100+ links, but only 25 of them are valid.

Valid links are placed inside

<td><a href=" (link) ">

First I had (and still have) a problem with double quotes inside verbatim strings. So, I have replaced verbatim with “normal” strings so I can use \” for ” but the problem is that this Regex I have written doesn’t work

Match LinksTemp = Regex.Match(
                              htmlCode,
                              "<td><a href=\"(.*)\">",
                              RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

as I get "<td><a href="http://www.google.com"> as output instead of http://www.google.com

Anyone know how can I solve this problem and how can I use double quotes inside of verbatim strings (example @” <>”das”sa “)

Answer 1

Escaped double quotes sample: @"some""test"
Regex sample: "<a href=\"(.*?)\">"

    var match = Regex.Match(html, "<td><a href=\"(.*?)\">", 
RegexOptions.Singleline); //spelling error
    var url = match.Groups[1].Value;

Also you may want to use Regex.Matches(...) instead of Regex.Match(...)