Ok so im a complete n00b at using
vb.NET as i have been used to using
vb6 for a little over a year. I'm sort of forcing myself to
learn .NET.
Anyways im working on a project that parses a webpage of its data. The
data I need to pull is between the tags of <div class="description">
and </ul>. If i could pull this data it would be great. The only
problem i have is that my program currently starts at the first
"description" tag and then parses everything else in to the bottom of
the page. I cant seem to figure out why it wont stop at the last </ul>
tag.
Here is the code for the portion im talking about
:
Code:
'get the response from the server
responseReader = New IO.StreamReader(webRequest.GetResponse.GetResponseStream)
responseData = responseReader.ReadToEnd
responseReader.Close()
strData = responseData
Dim intIndex As Integer
Dim intLastIndex As Integer
Dim strInfo As String
strInfo = ""
intIndex = strData.IndexOf("<div class=""description""",
0)
intLastIndex = intIndex
While intIndex >= 0
intIndex = strData.IndexOf("</ul>", intIndex)
If intIndex >= 0 Then
strInfo += strData.Substring(intLastIndex,
intIndex - intLastIndex) + "</ul>"
intLastIndex = intIndex
intIndex = strData.IndexOf("<div
class=""description""", intLastIndex + 1)
Else
intIndex = -1
End If
End While
I then take the data that gets parsed and put it into a txt or html
file. Personally i think it might be ReadToEnd at the top of the
code.
If i've left anything out that you need please let me know. Like
i said im still learning programming so if its too cryptic I may
answer back with an explanation.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated and thank in advance!
-Boniggy
Trying to pull data between two different HTML tag
