Extract first (n) number of paragraphs from a long text

T² Thanks so so much for that. It has really saved me some headache!

Thanks a lot Tina:
Assuming I have
public string getSummary(string inputHTML){

}

Please help me construct that and return a string that has only the first 3 paragraphs,
Thanx.

It can definitely be achieved using a simple array split..

            string[] arrText = sText.Split('\n');
            foreach(string sExtractText in arrText)
           {
           }

Or using a regular expression like this:

// Regex comments .-> matches any single character except \n
// * -> matches preceeding character any number of times
//$-> end of the string

            Regex r = new Regex(@"(.*$)", RegexOptions.Multiline);
            Match m;
            string sExtract = "";

// This gives the groups of matched strings where the processing can be done
            for (m = r.Match(sText); m.Success; m = m.NextMatch())
            {
                sExtract = m.Groups[1].Value;
            }

Tina I think ur getting it. Do you have a method I can use? Maybe some sample code I can implement?

If the objective is to extract first n paragraphs, then extract the whole text from the database, and use a regular expression to extract the desired text.

thanx ajay, how does your query string check for existence of

? Does it go with those conventions or it just counts the strings/words passed and limits it?

hi friend,
in your select query use this below example Query
SELECT empID,empName,CASE WHEN LEN(Description) > 30 THEN  SUBSTRING(Description,0,25) + '....' ELSE Description END AS    Description  FROM emp
empID,Ename,Description are columns of my empo table.
if it helps you please check mark as accept answer.
Thanks.