C# Regular Expression Help Needed

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Using C# regular expressions to remove HTML tags
Extract Content from Div Tag C# RegEx

Hi and thanks for looking!

Question

How do I write a regular expression (in C#) to reduce this string:

<span class='foo'>bar</span>

To this:

bar

In a severe time crisis, so please excuse my not RingTFM! Thanks!

Matt

Do you want a regular expression for that exact string (if so why) or a class of strings which that is an example of? replacing `.*` with `bar` will satisfy your requirements but I am sure the requirements are stronger than that so you should try to describe your problem in more detail. — Chris, Feb 17 '12 at 17:00
Especially when you're in "a a severe time crisis" you should take the time to detail the question correctly. The current one is answerable with `return "bar";` — H H, Feb 17 '12 at 17:03
Thanks for all of your concern fellas, but Joey answered the question with just what I needed within seconds of posting and without further detail. That guy must be really smart. Thanks again though! — Matt Cashatt, Feb 17 '12 at 17:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '12 at 16:59

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Regex.Replace(myString, "<[^>]*>", "");

answered Feb 17 '12 at 16:59

Joey

Claro! Thank you sir! I can accept in 12 minutes. . . – Matt Cashatt Feb 17 '12 at 17:00
Fits the job description, will however fail if the input string is not exactly string – Till Feb 17 '12 at 17:03
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Apparently it suffices (see other comment). Most questions of that form aim at removing tags. – Joey Feb 17 '12 at 17:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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String result = Regex.Replace(htmlDocument, @"<[^>]*>", String.Empty);

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

Community

answered Feb 17 '12 at 17:01

raveturned

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 17 '12 at 17:04

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You could also get the same result with:

XDocument.Parse("<span class='foo'>bar</span>").Element("span").Value

answered Feb 17 '12 at 17:04

Aaron Anodide

Provided it's valid XML which usually can't be said of HTML. – Joey Feb 17 '12 at 17:08
xhtml isn't very common? (i'm asking, i don't know) – Aaron Anodide Feb 17 '12 at 17:11
To my knowledge it's not that common on the web. – Joey Feb 17 '12 at 17:20