Question

Say I have the following string.

"<description>This is the description,<strong> I want to retrieve this text</strong></description> and this is not the description."

And I just want to extract the part of the string between the two description tags/strings. I know I can install and use something like html agility pack, but I’d rather not for one purpose task such as this. Also the .net XML parser won’t do, because it does not play well with html.

Answer 1

var description = Regex.Match(s, @"<description>(.*)</description>").Groups[1];