C# check html tag inside text with regex

Question

This is my html:

<div class="bla">
followers
<a href="">followers count </a>
</div>

What i want is that, if <div class="bla" /> inside text equals followers get next a tag inside text(followers count). I know this would be easy with htmlagilitypack but in this case can't use it. How to do it with regex?

But why regex? If you can't use HtmlAgilityPack then there are other packages designed for this purpose. — Darin Dimitrov, Dec 22 '15 at 11:27
I am parsing facebook, and content is inside scripts and commented. only regex see it — Nika Javakhishvili, Dec 22 '15 at 11:28
What do you mean only regex can see it? Can you give a concrete example? — Darin Dimitrov, Dec 22 '15 at 11:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '15 at 11:42

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Is this what you need?

    var mtch = Regex.Match(input, 
"<div class[ ]?=[ ]?\"bla[^\"]*\"[ ]?>(?<groupName>[\\w\\W]+</div>");
    if (mtch.Groups["groupName"].Value.ToLower().Contains("followers"))
    {
        //do your stuff
    }

answered Dec 22 '15 at 11:42

Mikhail Tulubaev

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