help with regex asp

[guestAsh]

Hiya,

I've created a small asp app that brings back some page details. i'm using MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP to scrape the page and then regex to find the information I need. The problem i'm having is to find the header of the page which would be in the H1 tag.

i'm using:

.Pattern = "h1(.*)h1"

Which brings back the header of the page fine, However some older pages have a header such as the following:

 <h1><span class="redheading">foo</span><br>foo foo foo</h1>

regex can't match it and brings back nothing, i have a feeling it may be the < or the " ? any idea ?

Ta

Ash

 

[guestAsh]

would line breaks effect it?

so the actual html appears lik this:

 <h1><span class="redheading">foo</span>
<br>foo foo foo</h1>

on 2 lines, i'll keep on testing!

 

[tsuji]

>would line breaks effect it?
Sure.

>.Pattern = "h1(.*)h1"
I don't like it. But if it serves the initial purpose, the minimum I can propose to adapt to this case is this.
[tt] .Pattern = "h1([\s\S]*)h1"[/tt]
But I cannot help proposing at least to make it non-greedy as one h1-tag might have the designer tempted to make another on a page however it is deprecated.
[tt] .Pattern = "h1([\s\S]*?)h1"[/tt]