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RegEx to extract text from HTML elements and populate an array

Asked by zaarin in Regular Expressions, JavaScript

Tags: JavaScript, RegEx, Regular Expression, Array, Multidimentional, HTML, element

I've been searching through the Regular Expression posts, but have not been able to successfully implement what I want. I want to read though a string consisting of an entire HTML page, and pull out some key text from specific elements and ideally populate a multidimensional array with the text.

Each entry for the array should have 8 sub items, and I only need the first 10 entries located within the original HTML string.

The items needed are located within a table and all, except for one, are wrapped in a div with a class of "list". The exception is the href attribute of the anchor element that immediately precedes the first div.

The code example lists an example entry (the text strings needed are wrapped in curly brackets {}). The   at the beginning of the div.list appears to be inconsistent. It is not wanted regardless of if it's there or not.

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<tr>
	<td valign="top"><a href="{URL}"> <div class="list">{NAME}</div></a></td>
	<td width="80" valign="top"><div class="list">&nbsp;{POSITION}</div></td>
	<td width="80" valign="top"><div class="list">&nbsp;{EXTENSION}</div></td>
	<td width="110" valign="top"><div class="list">&nbsp;{UNIT}</div></td>
	<td width="80" valign="top"><div class="list">&nbsp;{AGENCY}</div></td>
	<td width="140" valign="top"><div class="list">&nbsp;{PHONE}</div></td>
	<td width="220" valign="top"><div class="list">&nbsp;{ADDRESS}</div></td>
</tr>
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