I am trying to parse a webpage and to get the number reference after <li>YM#. For example I need to get 1234-234234 in a variable from the HTML that contains
<li>YM# 1234-234234 </li>
Many thanks for your help someone!
Rich
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var text = document.body.innerHTML; console.log(text); text = text.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,''); var id = text.match(/YM#[0-9]-[0-9]/g); I know I am a way off!Rich– Rich2012-04-21 05:57:13 +00:00Commented Apr 21, 2012 at 5:57
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currently, your regex only matches if there is a single number before the dash and a single number after it. This will let you get one or more numbers in each place instead:
/YM#[0-9]+-[0-9]+/g
Then, you also need to capture it, so we use a cgroup to captue it:
/YM#([0-9]+-[0-9]+)/g
Then we need to refer to the capture group again, so we use the following code instead of the String.match
var regex = /YM#([0-9]+-[0-9]+)/g;
var match = regex.exec(text);
var id = match[1];
// 0: match of entire regex
// after that, each of the groups gets a number
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Rich
Thankyou for telling me exactly how to do it. It didn't actually work initially but it was so close I managed to fix it myself. It needed \s in between # and [ as there is a space. Thanks so much Jasper!
