Regular expression for a table with class name tn_result

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what will be the regular expression for a table with class name tn_result?

I have tried two expressions given below but neither is working. What is wrong with them? How can I make this work?

 string TableExpression = "<TTable class=\"tn_results\">(.*?)</table>";

One happy day, no-one will ask any more questions about how to parse HTML with regular expressions... — Graham Clark, Apr 05 '12 at 11:57
Stackoverflow should really redirect users asking questions containing "regular expression", "html", "table", "class"... directly to http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/ — Goran, Apr 05 '12 at 12:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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See this answer on why this is a bad idea.

The answer depends on whether you need to get this table server-side or client-side.

On the client, use jQuery:

var table = $('table.tn_result');

On the client, if you're using ASP.Net WebForms, it will probably be easiest to add runat="server" and id attributes on the table(s) you want to get. Then you can just get them in the code-behind like any other control:

var table = this.TableId; //not really required, but hopefully makes things clear
if(table.Attributes["class"].Contains("tn_result"))
{
    // do something with the table
}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 12:04

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this is not what i am looking for. I need regexpression because i am writting some application for data scrapping. – user1282751 Apr 05 '12 at 12:11
Regular Expressions will not work with HTML. You do not actually need a regular expression, you need an HTML parser. – Graham Clark Apr 05 '12 at 12:15

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 25 '17 at 07:53

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For scraping HTML use the Html Agility Pack. It's very flexible and lets you manipulate poorly formed HTML as if it were well-formed XML, so you can use XPATH or just iterate over nodes.

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 12:20

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Regular expression for a table with class name tn_result

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