Ok, I have found this nifty piece of code.  It does a nice job of grabbing a URL and outputting it.  What I would like to do is find tags in the HTML of the URL supplied. 

How would I look for all instances of the "<b>"   and get the text between and the "</b>" tags?

/////////////////////////  CODE FROM AN EXAMPLE ON ANOTHER SITE  ////////////////////
private String readHtmlPage(string url)
{

String result;
WebResponse objResponse;
WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = sr.ReadToEnd();
// Close and clean up the StreamReader
sr.Close();
}

return result;
}

///////////////////////////// END ////////////////////////

Thank you,
I am in Australia on business and will be checking the forums.  Hopefully, some of you can help a girl out.

I would recommend getting the request and then serializing it to XML.  Then you can search through the document fast and easy and get exact in between elements.

Hi ,
you can do it splitting the value of the stream reader and storing it in a string array  by the following

Dim Mystr() as string
Mystr = String.split(result,"<b>")

this will return your stream reader values as follows
"<b>...............</b>"
"<b>...............</b>"
"<b>...............</b>"

and then u can take each item individually

thnx
Ahmed

string result = "This is some <b>bold</b> text and so is <b>this</b>";

int posStart = 0, posEnd = 0;

ArrayList bold = new ArrayList();

posStart = result.IndexOf("<b>");

while (posStart != -1)

{

posStart += 3;

posEnd = result.IndexOf("</b>", posStart);

bold.Add (result.Substring(posStart, posEnd - posStart));

posStart = result.IndexOf("<b>", posEnd);

}

foreach (string text in bold)

Response.Write (text + "<br>");

Thank you, You are a Genius! 

Yes but if you stream all the HTML out to XML ( which is very easy to do) then its already serialized and you have it in xml format.  You can then use the fast search operations to do powerful processing instead of using the streams to do ok functionality.

Ok, that sounds great, so how would I do it using this:

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private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

myPage.Text = readHtmlPage("http://localhost/CSharpTest/MARCRiskDetail.htm");

}

private String readHtmlPage(string url)

{

//String result;

WebResponse objResponse;

WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url);

objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))

{

String result = sr.ReadToEnd();

//string result = "This is some <b>bold</b> text and so is <b>this</b>";

int posStart = 0, posEnd = 0;

ArrayList bold = new ArrayList();

posStart = result.IndexOf("<div>Time:");

while (posStart != -1)

{

posStart += 0;

posEnd = result.IndexOf(")</div>", posStart);

bold.Add (result.Substring(posStart, posEnd - posStart));

posStart = result.IndexOf("<div>Time:", posEnd);

}

foreach (string text in bold)

Response.Write (text + "<br>");

// Close and clean up the StreamReader

sr.Close();

}

return "";

// return result;

}

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Thank you!!