VB.net Searching for a string HTML And Substring

Question

How can I find Color Of The Day: in a html document from the web? And then find the text AFTER it like this:

Color Of The Day: Blue

The HTML ( Cropped Line ) looks like this:

<li><strong>Color Of The Day: Blue</strong></li>

The web's source has a lot of lines up and down.

I'm looking for a way to put Blue in a MsgBox(color)

Thanks for reading.

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Possible duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818116/how-to-get-the-source-code-of-a-html-page-using-vb-net — help-info.de, Jul 01 '16 at 15:12
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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '16 at 17:19

First read in the whole string into a variable as normal. Then use the Replace function to get rid of the part you don't want.

Example:

Let's say you read in and saved the string

"Color Of The Day: Blue" to a variable called withParts

Dim withoutParts As String = Replace(withParts, "Color Of The Day: ", "")

This will replace the phrase "Color Of The Day: " with nothing, essentially giving you a new string" "Blue" in your new variable withoutParts

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