Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Hi,

I'm doing a screen scrape of a web page, which works with out any problems

What I want to do is replace the contents of tag, I can do this if the tag match exactly but in this page there are allot of blank spaces.

lbltest.Text contains the page being scrapped. The tag is formatted like this

<li class="thisclass">

                           

                             TheText

                           

             </li>

I can't to a simple replace because of all the spaces. So I need to get it to look like this

<li class="thisclass">TheText</li>

Any ideas how I might do this?

Thanks in advance

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Hi,
you specify, what method you are using to Scrape the Page . Have you heard Regex class?

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Hi,

This is the method I used:-
http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=93

Not heard of that class

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Regex is a Class that used for Regular Expressions. It is useful for Parsing.

For more detail, refer http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

thanks, how would I pick up on the line breaks and spaces, would it be possile to show me an example?

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Ever heard of Trim(). Use it!

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

I think you have missed the point, I need to replace line breaks and spaces, if you look at the example given, trim will not do this

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Incorrect, trim does replace line breaks and spaces. Please prove me wrong but you won't.

I have just tested it:

Dim nl As String = System.Environment.NewLine

Dim test As String = "                   " + nl + nl + "     TheText  " + nl + nl





TextBox1.Text = test   'show original string in a multiline text box

TextBox2.Text = test.Trim 'show changed string in a multiline text box

Re: Screen Scrape remove spaces/line breaks between specified tags
 

Hi,

Please google it for parsing HTML using Regex class. You will get a lot. Once you can able to parse HTML Tags, Ultimately you have to Use String.Trim() to remove unwanted white spaces .