basically what i am doing is building a c# app which allows users to open up html files and in between the certain tags find the contents.
So it has to:
- read start tag, example: <object>
- read stop tag, example: </object>
- take text which is in between the two tags and place it in a
text area.
any ideas???
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assuming tag opener is "<" and tag closer is ">" and wanted tag is [any tag you want to read the contents of] Read every character as 'c': if c is tag opener: read d from c until d is tag closer if string(c+, d) …
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assuming tag opener is "<" and tag closer is ">" and wanted tag is [any tag you want to read the contents of]
Read every character as 'c':
if c is tag opener:
read d from c until d is tag closer
if string(c+, d) is wanted_tag:
read e from d until e s tag opener:
return string(d+, e)Of course, you can do some extra checking on that last part to make sure the encountered tag is actually the closer for your wanted tag, and not just some random < or a tag opener for a nested tag.
Yes that is the problem seeing if there are other tags in the text i want
I know how to get to a tag and parsing the value of that tag, but i am still getting confused what to do when one of the characters is '<' which belongs to a different tag
That's a design decision that you have to make. Do you skip over those internal tags, do you complain to the user, or do you return the text as is?
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