(Jan 11, 2018 09:37 AM)Ninja Wrote:  It is JSON, so you should use JSON.net by NewtonSoft.

(Jan 11, 2018 11:08 AM)Johan Cruyff Wrote:  I see it is a paid product, I'm not really looking to buy something like that since its not something I wanna resell in the future.
Is there any other way?

(Jan 11, 2018 11:50 AM)iRtehBest Wrote:  Use a WebRequest and Regex....

(Jan 11, 2018 12:08 PM)Dialog Wrote:  Just don't post if you have no clue what you're talking about.

(Jan 11, 2018 12:34 PM)System[X] Wrote:  Whats wrong with regex like ?

yes it can be bad if you get the pattern wrong and can create some hassle getting the pattern correct but honestly why use other classes and add modules to parse something from the web when regex can do it just fine with less lines of code and just as efficient.

If you know how to use regex the proper way then there is no problem using it. I have used many different methods and still prefer regex to them all, yes it can be a pain at time to get the correct pattern but its all the fun with coding and i love using regex for html or any web page to gather info from it.

Thanks

(Jan 11, 2018 12:44 PM)Dialog Wrote:  Read some of the answers here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

(Jan 11, 2018 01:01 PM)System[X] Wrote:  Yes, i see. A good point there and should be used for the above link that i looked at after i posted(my fault).

But with other html web pages i would still prefer to use regex myself as i am extremely confident with using regex and get the pattern correct most of the time. To be honest tho i do remove "" from the webpage source before i proceed and also use plain text + regex in the patterns and also group them if needed. Maybe with me being old school and coding since vb6 and other languages well before that.

I see a few people say "ohh no, do NOT use regex" because they simply don't know how to use it correctly(not saying you, but a few people i see posting), its like when people say "ohh, no don't use .NET as a language".

Its always going to be same case when there is more than 1 method to use because people are different and believe too strongly in one method to try anything else. Its the same case in any language.

Always going to be good points and bad points.

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(Jan 11, 2018 01:09 PM)Dialog Wrote:  It's not about "getting the pattern" right or not, but about the fact that regex just isn't suitable for context-free languages like HTML - that is not an opinion but a fact. Regex is a great and powerful tool and has many use cases, but parsing HTML is not one of them.
Recently I've been working on an app that valdiates passport document numbers. That's perfect for regex.

(Jan 11, 2018 12:13 PM)Sn0wX Wrote:  Serialize and Deserialize JSON Data is already built into net classes :/

Look into DataContractJsonSerializer.

(Jan 11, 2018 01:14 PM)System[X] Wrote:  So since regex can be used quite easily for this, its a fact that is should not be used over other methods that can parse the html because its not suitable for the job ?

OP, is it just the top line of the souce that you want ?

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{"BTC_BCN":{"id":7,"last":"0.00000073","lowestAsk":"0.00000074","highestBid":"0.00000073","percentChange":"-0.05194805","baseVolume":"314.38478290","quoteVolume":"421810741.82748085","isFrozen":"0","high24hr":"0.00000080","low24hr":"0.00000070"}

an easy regex pattern to be honest. Remove all the " from the source then its like plain text(no html tags)

Infact you could easily split the source on the first instance of "}" then use regex to separate the info into sections for variables.

Many ways of doing this task

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(Jan 11, 2018 02:09 PM)Sn0wX Wrote:  Good story Ninja, why you even hear (said nicely)? If i wanted a begginers programming advice i'd contact wrox. Every day its post without and examples.

Tbh you are just a waste of air here getting a post count. 16 i guess? released any projects i can look at?

All yo do is use google. I suspect you are good at finding multiple returns and can use that info to pick what is correct.

Google boy 101