C# HTMLAgilityPack Select not contains

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My program is a simple c# console application, I am unsure of howto achieve my goal, basically I am selecting a single node but I would like to ignore an tag with a particular text value, my code is below.

string name = item.SelectSingleNode("//select[contains(@id,'var')]//option")
                  .GetInnerTextFromNode();

I know in jQuery you could use :not filter, but not sure in C# and I have search for documentation for the pack, but nothing has surfaced.

Thank you

You're looking for the `not()` operator. The syntax parsed by the HTML Agility Pack is actually XPath, so if you search for that you should find a lot more answers :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11024080/how-to-use-not-contains-in-xpath — CodingIntrigue, Dec 11 '13 at 13:16

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 20 '16 at 15:00

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Simply taking RGraham's comment and turning it into an answer:

 string name = item.SelectSingleNode("//select[not(contains(@id,'var'))]//option")
              .GetInnerTextFromNode();

As for guidance on what kind of functions you can use, check out the w3schools XPath tutorials.

edited Jan 20 '16 at 15:00

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answered Dec 11 '13 at 13:22

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Thank you for that, unfortunately I am unable to 1 up the comment. – user3091209 Dec 11 '13 at 13:24
If you just transformed the comment to an answer (which it should be), you should probably mark it as "community wiki". – Jens Erat Dec 11 '13 at 22:39
@jens, no idea how to do that. – jessehouwing Dec 12 '13 at 15:17
There is a small check box when editing your post. There's also a [page in the FAQ](http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/community-wiki). – Jens Erat Dec 12 '13 at 16:28

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