Get text from PRE tags

Suthish Nair

Hi,

I have multiple pre tags like below.. an example...

test

Hello
1

Hello
2

Hello
3

I need to get text value from pre tags and strip out the html tags.

O/P

Hello 1

Hello 2

Hello 3

7 Replies

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Vulpes15y ago
Accepted answer
Try:

   string html = File.ReadAllText("suthish.htm");
   string regExp = @"(?<=).*(?=)";
   string regExp2 = @"<.*?>";
   MatchCollection mc = Regex.Matches(html, regExp);
   foreach(Match m in mc) Console.WriteLine(Regex.Replace(m.Value, regExp2, ""));
Sam Hobbs15y ago
It can be done with the DOM.

Suthish, do you need the output to be like you show or like the output produced by the code that Vulpes posted? The output using the RegEx does not have an embedded space, which is consistent with the way the text would look in a browser, correct?

The attached zip has code that produces the same output, including the absence of a space. If you need greater control of the data then you need to be more specific about what you need. I assume that since you accepted Vulpes's reply, you don't need the additional text.

Note that the project for the source code needs a reference to "Microsoft HTML Object Library".
Raja Krishnamurthy15y ago
@Vulpes:How did you come up with the Regex? You rock!!! +1
Suthish Nair15y ago
That will strip out all other html tags. I just want to read contents/text between pre tags.
Raja Krishnamurthy15y ago
I think you can use Regex to replace the HTML tags. Please try this:

String result = Regex.Replace(strLine, @"<[^>]*>", String.Empty); //strLine is each line of text
```
HTH
```
Suthish Nair15y ago
hmm.. anyone
Prabhakar Parihar15y ago
u want like this Hello 1 try this
```
Hello  
1
```