Re: Need help with a regular expression!

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Hi David,

You need to use this RegEx

<([map][map]*)[^>]*>(.*?)</\1>

Try this, might be usefull. If not then keep your string in one line then
search with above regex.

Regards
Sachin Korgaonkar



"David Hearn" <david.hearn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uw7ECbdQFHA.2948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I am trying to use RegEx.Match to locate some text in an HTML file. I am
> trying to find everything between <map> files so that I can grab the
> coordinates. The map files looks like this:
>
> <map name="Map4">
> <area shape="rect" coords="160,158,443,163" href="#">
> <area shape="rect" coords="161,166,442,171" href="#">
> <area shape="rect" coords="160,184,433,304" href="#">
> <area shape="rect" coords="160,314,434,446" href="#">
> <area shape="rect" coords="160,455,435,564" href="#">
> </map>
>
> So I need a regular expression to find <map {everything in between} </map>
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>


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