Hello Everyone and thansk for your help in advance. I am working on an application that needs to parse links withing HTML. First, here are a few of the strings I am trying to work with:

profile.asp?LicId=87803&ProfNBR=1501

profile.asp?LicId=5934&ProfNBR=1901

As you can see, the numeric string after the LicId= is variable in length. I actually don't need to match anything after the numeric portion, so I can let the & termminate the match. The code I have tried is:

Dim MatchPattern As String = "profile.asp\?LicId\=[\d{2-6}]"

Dim mcLinks As MatchCollection
Dim mcLink As Match

mcLinks = Regex.Matches(html, MatchPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
For Each mcLink In mcLinks
    LinkData = LinkData & mcLink.ToString & vbCrLf
Next

However, the output returned is:

profile.asp?LicId=8
profile.asp?LicId=5

Not really sure why this isn't working. Once again, thanks for the help.

Hi

Can you try the following:

profile.asp\?LicId\=\d{2,6}

Cheers
Shasur

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I'm sure Shasur is right.

When you enclose something in [...] in a regular expression, that means you are allowing a choice of ANY ONE of the characters inside the [...].

So [\d{2-6}] means "allow either a digit or a { or a 2,3,4,5, or 6 or a }". One character, only, from those choices.

Sorry for the delay in gettinng back. Thanks so much for the help. It worked fine.