Regex - match table tag by its ID fragment

Asked Oct 06 '13 at 21:04

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I didn't got it wrong. The aplication's running .net 3.5. There are no parsers working for 3.5, I swear.

I'm trying fetch a table tag, which has a keyword fragment within its ID.

I tried using this regex

"<table.*ctl01.*>.*</table>"

some listing:

 <table class="Default_GridClass" cellspacing="0" rules="all" border="1" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_CustomerByLocation_ViewPanelStandAlone_ViewPanel_Grid_ctl01">

this table tag is located inside its two parent's table tags.

actually, the parent tables contain no "ctl01" fragment in their ID. but, using my regex i get all 3 tables instead of that one

asked Oct 06 '13 at 21:04

Alex Herrmann

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One of the most famous questions on StackOverflow and relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags – aug Oct 06 '13 at 21:13
definitely an up-vote for above comment. Look into something like Html Agility Pack to convert the html into a tree representation. http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/ – Joseph Hopkins Oct 06 '13 at 21:17
@JosephHopkins , I have already tried agility pack. It's not working for 3.5 as I stated above – Alex Herrmann Oct 06 '13 at 21:22
ok - try being non-greedy on selectors. ([^<]*?)
– Joseph Hopkins Oct 06 '13 at 21:32
@JosephHopkins , nope. Doesn't work. Still getting all tables within the document. – Alex Herrmann Oct 06 '13 at 21:35
Try `]*ctl01[^>]*>[^>]*
` – hwnd Oct 06 '13 at 22:48
In your example source, where is the end tag? Is it on the next line? But the regex assumes everything on the same line. – Mr Lister Oct 07 '13 at 09:51

Regex - match table tag by its ID fragment

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