Need data inside the Body tag, but no any other tag

Question

Hi I have Resume in the html format, I am reading file using StreamReader ,and I am removing tags using below method.

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("\\Myfile.html"))
                {
                    String line = sr.ReadToEnd();
                    string jj = Regex.Replace(line, "<.*?>", String.Empty);
    }

Its working Damn Cool

But however as per my requirement I need the data only inside the body tag. but no body tag, and with no tags inside.

Answer 1

Don't use Regex for HTML/XML parsing. Use Html/Xml parser. Here is explain well why you should not use it.

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?

You can load the string in Html document using HTML Agility pack

Here little example of how to do it:

public string ReplacePElement() 
{
    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
    doc.Load(htmlFile);

    foreach(HtmlNode p in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("body"))
    {

    }

    return doc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml;
}