Need data inside the Body tag, but no any other tag

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Hi I have Resume in the html format, I am reading file using StreamReader ,and I am removing tags using below method.

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("\\Myfile.html"))
                {
                    String line = sr.ReadToEnd();
                    string jj = Regex.Replace(line, "<.*?>", String.Empty);
    }

Its working Damn Cool

But however as per my requirement I need the data only inside the body tag. but no body tag, and with no tags inside.

Try `` instead of `<.*?>` - Still a bit unclear what you're after. — Tyler Roper, Oct 07 '16 at 19:53
Just skip lines until `` is found and then execute the code you have until `` is found — Hank, Oct 07 '16 at 19:55
Try `string jj = Regex.Replace(line.Substring(line.IndexOf("", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)), "<[^>]+>", String.Empty);` — Wiktor Stribiżew, Oct 07 '16 at 19:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Don't use Regex for HTML/XML parsing. Use Html/Xml parser. Here is explain well why you should not use it.

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?

You can load the string in Html document using HTML Agility pack

Here little example of how to do it:

public string ReplacePElement() 
{
    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
    doc.Load(htmlFile);

    foreach(HtmlNode p in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("body"))
    {

    }

    return doc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml;
}

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Oct 07 '16 at 20:01

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So only text will be the output , no any tag , right ? – New Bee Oct 07 '16 at 20:13
for removing all the tags from body ->http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12787449/html-agility-pack-removing-unwanted-tags-without-removing-content – mybirthname Oct 07 '16 at 20:16

Need data inside the Body tag, but no any other tag

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