[★☆✰ Matto ✰☆★]

Not sure I follow, a regular expression is the search pattern e.g. \b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b

So what do you mean by HTML tags aren't regular expressions? You can use regex with strings containing HTML tags?

[Cody8295]

Not sure I follow, a regular expression is the search pattern e.g. \b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b

So what do you mean by HTML tags aren't regular expressions? You can use regex with strings containing HTML tags?

HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language

Any markup language is not a regular expressions. Regular expressions include string of text, not code.

[★☆✰ Matto ✰☆★]

Ah ok, thanks for explaining it. Never knew you couldn't parse markup lanugages with RegEX, I assume its the same with XML?

[Cody8295]

Ah ok, thanks for explaining it. Never knew you couldn't parse markup lanugages with RegEX, I assume its the same with XML?

You can parse whatever you want, it will work fine, it's just not appropriate to do so.

[ident]

RegEx isn't even appropriate for HTML anyways...

Care to explain how? HTML is a string. And dont post that silly ONE post. Explain from your own understanding.

[Proioxis]

its to my understanding, only after 30 or so minutes of researching regex yesterday that it can be used to find regular expressions in html code to get a specific text value within the html so you can output a string from the html code into the program without the tags

[ident]

Cody constantly refers to this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17323...ained-tags But actually can't explain in his own words. The comment is not 100% wrong but holds little water. Regex can very much parse HTML. Strings are strings.

[Cody8295]

Cody constantly refers to this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17323...ained-tags But actually can't explain in his own words. The comment is not 100% wrong but holds little water. Regex can very much parse HTML. Strings are strings.

I've been explaining it for the past 2 pages, reread.

[carrot223]

That one SO question has spread a lot of confusion. RegEx is ideal for extracting specific information from specific html, like to OP requires.
Take note of the 2nd answer to that question.