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Try the following. It should handle just &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;, &lt;p attributes=&quot;&quot;&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;, and either of the previous with nested tags--except nested &lt;p&gt; tags.<br />

<pre><code id="code-8159878">Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

...

Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(source_text, &quot;(?&lt;=&lt;p(?:&gt;| [^&gt;]*&gt;))(?:[^&lt;]|&lt;(?!/p&gt;))*(?=&lt;/p&gt;)&quot;)
Dim text As String

If m.Success Then
    text = m.Value
End If</code></pre>
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Try the following. It should handle just <p>...</p>, <p attributes="">...</p>, and either of the previous with nested tags--except nested <p> tags.


Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

...

Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(source_text, "(?<=<p(?:>| [^>]*>))(?:[^<]|<(?!/p>))*(?=</p>)")
Dim text As String

If m.Success Then
    text = m.Value
End If

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If you are just going to have &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; with no nested tags and you want to simplify the pattern, you can use:<br />

<pre><code id="code-8159880">Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

...

Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(source_text, &quot;(?&lt;=&lt;p&gt;)[^&lt;]*(?=&lt;/p&gt;)&quot;)
Dim text As String

If m.Success Then
    text = m.Value
End If</code></pre>
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If you are just going to have <p>...</p> with no nested tags and you want to simplify the pattern, you can use:


Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

...

Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(source_text, "(?<=<p>)[^<]*(?=</p>)")
Dim text As String

If m.Success Then
    text = m.Value
End If

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If i have multiple &lt;p&gt; tags how could I handle that?
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If i have multiple <p> tags how could I handle that?

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like if i wanted it to loop through all the &lt;p&gt; tags:<br />
<br />
I tried doing a MatchCollection but no luck :/
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like if i wanted it to loop through all the <p> tags:

I tried doing a MatchCollection but no luck :/

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I have the following HTML document and I need to pull the text from the &lt;p&gt; tag from the code below. &nbsp;How can I solve this using regular expressions to pick up &quot;text here&quot; and save it to a string.<br />

<pre><code id="code-8159789">&lt;div id=&quot;abc&quot; class=&quot;container container-a&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;desc&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;text here&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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I have the following HTML document and I need to pull the text from the <p> tag from the code below.  How can I solve this using regular expressions to pick up "text here" and save it to a string.

VB .NET 2008 HTML Source Regex

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A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.