Parsing HTML file for a particular value

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I have a number of HTML files and I want to extract a particular value from all those files.

<div class="ABC">Value</div>

I want to extract the Value from all the pages. Should I use regex or some HTML parsing libraries? I am not very much familiar with regex, and I couldn't find any documentation of HTML library - HTML Agility.

Which approach should I follow? If I should use Regex, Or library or is there a better way of doing it?

[Relevant - Parsing HTML With Regex](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454) — tnw, May 29 '13 at 13:03

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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The most recommended way is to parse it by Your own.

You will need to create a method, but in the future You will have it as Your own tool, evolving whith every problem.

Take a look :

How to get IMG tag's source from given HTML string using c#

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered May 29 '13 at 13:33

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This is essentially exactly what you _don't_ want to do. – Grant Thomas May 29 '13 at 13:38
Why ? Can You explain, Thomas ? You posted, what i linked to . Ao where is the difference ? – icbytes May 29 '13 at 13:39
Roll your own XML parser for this one task is absurd, and is in most general cases for anything. – Grant Thomas May 29 '13 at 13:40
A ) He is talking about HTML. B ) all Your keywords are the same stuff, which i linked too. – icbytes May 29 '13 at 13:41
HTML _is_ XML (albeit its ugly child), the keywords I linked would allow you to parse someone _very specific_ as an irony to this instance and not something to just use on a whim for this kind of task. – Grant Thomas May 29 '13 at 13:42

Parsing HTML file for a particular value

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