.Net regex for string between \" "\

Question

I have been trying to get the id from the following text

<body id=\"body\" runat=\"server\">

In C# using substring or even Regex, but nothing seems to be working. No matter what regex i use, i always get the whole line back. I have been trying to use ^id, ^id.*, ^id=\\\\\\\\.* and id=.* but they don't either work or give me the desired output. Is there any way i can get the id portion from this text which is enclosed between the characters \" "\?

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Ban hammer a bit much... but [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](https://stackoverflow.com/q/1732348/1324033) — Sayse, Aug 15 '18 at 13:49
As noted in the regex tag - "NOTE: Asking for HTML, JSON, etc. regexes tends to be met with negative reactions. If there is a parser for it, use that instead." — Sayse, Aug 15 '18 at 13:49
is it not possible even if you convert HTML into a simple text and make it look like a string like " body id=\"body\" runat=\"server\" "? and then try to use regex over this string — user8657231, Aug 15 '18 at 13:59
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10709821/find-text-in-string-with-c-sharp — Slai, Aug 15 '18 at 14:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '18 at 23:00

Try this:

        string htmlString = "<body id=\"body\" runat=\"server\">";

        Regex regex = new Regex("id=\"(.*?)\"");
        Match m = regex.Match(htmlString);
        Group g = m.Groups[1];
        string id = g.ToString();

        Console.WriteLine(id); //body

Test here: http://rextester.com/BQSF93427

.Net regex for string between \" "\

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