Question

Ive made a small program in C#.net which doesnt really serve much of a purpose, its tells you the chance of your DOOM based on todays news lol. It takes an RSS on load from the BBC website and will then look for key words which either increment of decrease the percentage chance of DOOM.

Crazy little project which maybe one day the classes will come uin handy to use again for something more important.

I recieve the RSS in an xml format but it contains alot of div tags and formatting characters which i dont really want to be in the database of keywords,

What is the best way of removing these unwanted characters and div’s?

Thanks,

Ash

Answer 1

If you want to remove the DIV tags WITH content as well:

string start = '<div>'; string end = '</div>'; string txt = Regex.Replace(htmlString, Regex.Escape(start) + '(?<data>[^' + Regex.Escape(end) + ']*)' + Regex.Escape(end), string.Empty); 

Input: <xml><div>junk</div>XXX<div>junk2</div></xml>

Output: <xml>XXX</xml>