{"id":20830,"date":"2022-11-11T01:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-failing-regex-string-thats-correct\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:26:41","slug":"solved-failing-regex-string-thats-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-failing-regex-string-thats-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Failing Regex string thats correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-23589746\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"23589746\" data-parentid=\"23589536\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I don&#8217;t see the problem.  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/regexhero.net\/tester\/?id=58c8c8f2-f8e3-449a-a44c-ef3a1d1a1e98\">The regex works in the Regex Hero online tester<\/a> (including the capture group capturing <code>\"Beta\"<\/code>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Solved-Failing-Regex-string-thats-correct.png\" alt=\"VB.NET Regex in Regex Hero Online\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and works in the following VB.NET snippet it generated (to which I added a <code>Console.WriteLine<\/code> call for clarity):<\/p>\n<pre><code>Dim strRegex as String = \"Version:&lt;\/b&gt;\\s*&lt;span&gt;(.*)\\&lt;\"\nDim myRegex As New Regex(strRegex, RegexOptions.None)\nDim strTargetString As String = \"&lt;b&gt;Version:&lt;\/b&gt;             &lt;span&gt; Beta &lt;\/span&gt;\"\n\nFor Each myMatch As Match In myRegex.Matches(strTargetString)\n    If myMatch.Success Then\n        Console.WriteLine(myMatch.Groups(1).Value)\n    End If\nNext\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The snippet outputs what you want:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Beta<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">5<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Failing Regex string thats correct <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] I don&#8217;t see the problem. The regex works in the Regex Hero online tester (including the capture group capturing &#8220;Beta&#8221;)&#8230; &#8230;and works in the following VB.NET snippet it generated (to which I added a Console.WriteLine call for clarity): Dim strRegex as String = &#8220;Version:&lt;\/b&gt;\\s*&lt;span&gt;(.*)\\&lt;&#8221; Dim myRegex As New Regex(strRegex, RegexOptions.None) Dim strTargetString As String &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Failing Regex string thats correct\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-failing-regex-string-thats-correct\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Failing Regex string thats correct\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[347,353],"class_list":["post-20830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-regex","tag-vb-net"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Failing Regex string thats correct - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-failing-regex-string-thats-correct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Failing Regex string thats correct - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] I don&#8217;t see the problem. 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