[RESOLVED] Regex Help

[Tddupre]

I need to get the number in this url which is will be contained in the webbrowser1.documenttext, there will only be one on the page
example:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001473886&ref=search

I just need the 100001473886

[Firestarter_75]

Tddupre,

Try this:

Dim searchstring As String = "http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001473886&ref=search"
Dim idmatch As Match = Regex.Match(searchstring, "(?<=id\=)\d*(?=\&ref)")
If idmatch.Success Then
    MessageBox.Show(idmatch.Value)
Else
    MessageBox.Show("No match found.")
End If

Hope this helps

[Tddupre]

Tddupre,

Try this:

Dim searchstring As String = "http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001473886&ref=search"
Dim idmatch As Match = Regex.Match(searchstring, "(?<=id\=)\d*(?=\&ref)")
If idmatch.Success Then
    MessageBox.Show(idmatch.Value)
Else
    MessageBox.Show("No match found.")
End If

Hope this helps

this does help, but i need it to search the entire html text and find the number

[Firestarter_75]

Have you tried this example?

Have you tried changing the searchstring to something similar:

Dim searchstring As String = WebBrowser1.DocumentText

[Tddupre]

Have you tried this example?

Have you tried changing the searchstring to something similar:

Dim searchstring As String = WebBrowser1.DocumentText

yea i tried that, but it came up with no results

[Zach_VB6]

Try this as your regular expression:

id=(\d+)&?

[stanav]

the regex.match function returns only the first match found in the string. If you want to find all matches from a string, call regex.matches function instead and it will return a matchcollection which you can loop through each match and read the value.