Find username in downloaded HTML

[feneck]

OK. So what I am trying to do is this, its something basic, but i cant do it.

I have a web browser, its invisible, it then logs on using the details in the options of the program, it then downloads the HTML into a textbox(multiline).

There is a small line of code in the HTML that displays the users name, however depending on who logged in, the name can be different. I want to know, how do a search through this mass amount of text and only get the small text "Welcome, ****" (where **** = a name)


I thought that maybe i could find out the position of the start of the "Welcome," then find the position of the "&nsb" after the users name, then subtract both numbers, and there is the number for the TextBox1.SelectionLength

Please help me, i have this idea, but i am new to .net and i have no idea what to do
Thank you

[jmcilhinney]

Don't use hidden controls like that. If you want the source of a Web page then create a WebClient object and call its DownloadString method. Once you have the HTML source in a String you can manipulate it using methods of the String class, like Substring and IndexOf, or you can perform pattern matching using regular expressions. There would be numerous examples of using a Regex to find HTML tags already posted on the forum.

[feneck]

the only problem with this is that i need to log in?? how do i do that with a WebClient object? Can this be done?

[jmcilhinney]

Have you read the documentation for the WebClient class? I'm guessing not. Do so and you'll have your answer.