Regular Expression Matching

[fcoomermd]

I am new to Regular Expressions (don't really need to use them much), however need to use in this case.. Kind of a daunting task. I have tried my luck, but am stumbling...
Here is what I need to do.. Search a string, of lots of xml, and pull out the name from the following XML.
<last_Name xmlns="

http://soap.service.HED.com">HIRSCH

</last_Name>

What kind of reg expression would match "<last_name...." w/
"</last_Name>" ? and return only the middle?

Having troubles, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[cjelec]

Are you trying to return the contents of just that one only? or are you trying to return all of them?

Or do you have tags with last_name, first_name, age... And you whant to return those?


I am testing some code for you now,

 

[cjelec]

This code will find you the contents of the first 'last_name' tag:

   Dim reg1 As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<last_name.*?>(?<lastname>.*?)</last_name>")
   Dim amatch1 As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match = reg1.Match(MyXmlString)
   If amatch1.Success = True Then
      Last_Name = amatch1.Groups("lastname").Value
   End If

Hope this helps,

 

[pthalacker]

Why don't you use the XML DOM to read xml?