Regex to get a substring between < >

Asked Dec 15 '17 at 10:24

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I have a string like " test data \<tag1 attribute1="124" attribut2="abc"\> </tag>test end data"

I need sub string between "<tag1" and ">" as below:

"<tag1 attribute1="124" attribut2="abc">"

I have implemented below regex code for that:

var regex = new Regex("<tag1(.*)>");
var match = regex.Match(result);
var tagContent = match.Groups[1].Value;

Above did not help, it returned empty string.

Can anyone suggest me the right way of extracting content between "<tag1" and ">" using regex?

edited Dec 15 '17 at 10:26

Rand Random

asked Dec 15 '17 at 10:24

Akhil

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Do not parse XML using Regex – Thomas Weller Dec 15 '17 at 10:27
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[*turn back now*](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/23354); if this is html, use a tool like `HtmlDocument`; if this is xml: use an xml library. This is not a job for regex – Marc Gravell Dec 15 '17 at 10:27
@SouvikGhosh - I guess he means both, a string in `" "` in a `< >`, so bascially he wants to grab the attribute value. – Rand Random Dec 15 '17 at 10:27
@RandRandom Yeah I realized after someone edited the post. – Souvik Ghosh Dec 15 '17 at 10:28
Well the end of that tag is `\>` not `>`, so did you try ``? – Equalsk Dec 15 '17 at 10:30
– Vadzim Dvorak Dec 15 '17 at 10:32
The two posts I linked to will solve your current problem, but the right idea is to use appropriate tools to parse mark-up texts. – Wiktor Stribiżew Dec 15 '17 at 10:35
He comes...tony the pony – Liam Dec 15 '17 at 10:36
@Equalsk - I tried both and . None of them helped. – Akhil Dec 20 '17 at 06:47

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