Question

I’ve been trying to solve this for last two hours but it just doesnt work 🙁

I have downloaded html code of one web page and then I have removed all double white spaces and all new lines so the whole code is one line string.

And then I have to extract one piece of data from it

page.com/users/(this)/xxxxx/…..

match = Regex.Match(htmlCode, "page.com/users/(.*)/xxxxx/");
string user = match.Groups[1].ToString();

but it doesn’t work, I always get (this)/xxxxx/ + the rest of html code.

Anyone know why doesn’t this work?

Answer 1

Instead of the greedy (.*), use ([^/]*).