Extracting inner text from html code

[Bryan Hogan-2]

I need help; I'm trying to extract the inner text of span elements.
Please help.  I can only get as far as finding <span
id="lblOrganizationName">.

 

<span id="lblOrganizationName">I want this text</span>

 

 



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[schnee]

 >>I'm trying to extract the inner text of span elements.

See CF_REextract:
http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testREextract.cfm

You can test it on line here:
http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testingREextract.cfm
- Enter <span[^>]*> in RE1
- Enter </span in RE2
- Select OUTPUTMODE = List
- Enter <span id="lblOrganizationName">I want this text</span> in Sample
text
- Click Test

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[Bryan Hogan-2]

Chris,

 

Thanks this worked perfectly.

 

Bryan

 

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From: Chris Porter [mailto:cporter@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:18 PM
To: cf-regex@...; Bryan Hogan
Subject: Re: Extracting inner text from html code

 

i really wish claude would stop promoting his code, on the regex list,
and instead actually try to answer questions..

to answer your question, use this regex

<span.*?>(.*?)</span>

it will lazy (non-greedy) match everything between span tags. you can
make it more specific by adding things inside the opening span tag, for
example:

<span id="123asdf".*?>(.*?)</span>

or if you are like me and dont standardize your tags...

 <span.*?id=["']asdf123["'].*?>(.*?)</span>

Hope this helps!
-Chris



On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Claude Schneegans
<schneegans@...> wrote:

 >>I'm trying to extract the inner text of span elements.

See CF_REextract:
http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testREextract.cfm

You can test it on line here:
http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testingREextract.c
fm
- Enter <span[^>]*> in RE1
- Enter </span in RE2
- Select OUTPUTMODE = List
- Enter <span id="lblOrganizationName">I want this text</span> in Sample
text
- Click Test

--
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REUSE CODE! Use custom tags;
See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm
(Please send any spam to this address: piegeacon@...)
Thanks.





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