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[KraZy]

I've this string value:

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<a href="/teams/italy/fc-internazionale-milano/1244/" title="Inter">Inter</a>

I want to delete all and take only Inter; This is just a sample value, P. Osvaldo is not always the same, then I would find a general algorithm.
I find this regex on the internet:

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(?<=>)[^>]*(?=</a>$)

but it doesn't work

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 .Giocatore Regex.Match (Content, "<td class =" "large player-link" "\ s *> (. +?) </td>").Groups(1).ToString

this variable contains a value grab in a web page, the contenent grabbed is

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<a href="/teams/italy/fc-internazionale-milano/1244/" title="Inter">Inter</a>

so i want elaborate all pattern

[mandai]

If you parse the XML you could use this code to get the title attribute:

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    Private Sub btnTest_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnTest.Click

        Dim input As String = "<a href=""/teams/italy/fc-internazionale-milano/1244/"" title=""Inter"">Inter</a>"""
        Dim inputReader As StringReader = New StringReader(input)

        Dim inputXml As XmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader(inputReader)
        inputXml.Read()

        Dim title As String = inputXml.GetAttribute("title")

        MsgBox(title)

    End Sub

[visualtech]

Hey! I can propose a solution, but it can be a little cumbursome; but rest assured, you'll get the results! This solutions is based on a really simple logic without REGEX.

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// Considering you have the string stored in this variable
String s = "<a href="/teams/italy/fc-internazionale-milano/1244/" title="Inter">Inter</a>"

// Now, we'll iterate over each char till we get the ">", which means the first part's ending. 

int offset = 0; // Stores the location of the "<"

for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
  if (s[i] == '>' && s[i - 1] == '\"') {
    offset++;
  }
}

s = s.substring(offset); // Now we have removed the anchor's opening tag, the closing one remains constant.

s = s.replace("</a>", "");

// Now, "s" should contain the value.
MessageBox.Show(s);

Damn this internet! #mandai beat me! :P

[SumCode]

If you want to use regex this will work: >(\w+)<\/a>

And just capture the first group

[KraZy]

Thanks at all, good solutions.

[AnoPem]

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<(.*)>(.*)<(\/.*)>

Will split the string so that the second value vill be inter

[KraZy]

A last question, i've fixed the problem with one of our solution, but now I want understand because this regex not function with some link:

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 Dim Table_Rgx As MatchCollection = Regex.Matches(Code, "<tr class=""(odd|even)"" data-people_id=""\d+"" data-team_id=""(\d+)"">(.+?)</tr>", RegexOptions.Singleline)

I valorize the "Code" variable with a link, in particulare for this link:

http://it.soccerway.com/a/block_competi ... %22%3A1%7D

working good and I haven't problem, but for this link:

http://it.soccerway.com/a/block_competi ... %22%3A2%7D

seems that the Table_Rgx variables doesn't valorized with occurence.
I use in the future this variable to make a loop and monetize other variable.

What's wrong? dunnno;

[comathi]

What value are you trying to isolate exactly? It seems to me like the code you just posted won't isolate something along the lines of the first example you posted in the original post :?

[KraZy]

If you check the links that I previously posted you find this class:

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<tr class=\"odd\" data-people_id=\"122\" data-team_id=\"1242\">

If you try the regex with the first link you can see that the regex function, but with the second link the regex doesn't function, so the table.. variables doesn't valorized.

[comathi]

In the second link you provided, none of the <tr> elements have a data-team_id attribute, so the REGEX won't match them. However, if you want to make that attribute optionnal and match all <tr> elements that at least have the data-people_id attribute, you can use this REGEX string:

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<tr class=\\"(even|odd)\\" data-people_id=\\"\d+\\"( data-team_id=\\"\d+\\")?>

I tried this in Regexr, and for both URLs, it matched 15 instances