how do i get an always changing value from a string c#

Question

I am working on a program that will automatically get your characters stats and whatnot from the wow armory. I already have the html, and i can identify where the string is, but i need to get the "this.effective" value, which in this case is 594. But since its always changing (and so are the other values, i cant just take it a certain position. Any help would GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks

Matt --------- This is the html snippet:

    function strengthObject() {
        this.base="168";
        this.effective="594";
        this.block="29";
        this.attack="1168";

this.diff=this.effective - this.base;

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Answer 1

You can do it using regular expressions:

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string html = @"        function strengthObject() {
                this.base=""168"";
                this.effective=""594"";
                this.block=""29"";
                this.attack=""1168"";";

        string regex = @"this.effective=""(\d+)""";

        Match match = Regex.Match(html, regex);
        if (match.Success)
        {
            int effective = int.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
            Console.WriteLine("Effective = " + effective);
            // etc..
        }
        else
        {
            // Handle failure...
        }
    }
}