'Scrape' Text from a Dynamically Generated Web Page

[Ropetin Again]

I hate to just flat out ask, 'can you write this for me please?', but I'm totally stuck on what must be a fairly simple issue!

I'm trying to extract a small amount of text from a large number of dynamically generated web pages. I've got the actual generation of the pages down perfectly, and I can put the source of the pages into a variable using _IEBodyReadHTML. Extracting the data I need is where I get stuck. The pages can contain anything, in any position. However, I know what I'm looking for follows a standard format. There is one unique string, followed by the text I'm interested in surrounded by <B> tags. That unique string will not exist anywhere else on the page. Three examples would be;

<span id="_ctrl_fruit_selected"><b>Orange</b>
<span id="_ctrl_fruit_selected"><b>Apple</b>
<span id="_ctrl_fruit_selected"><b>Strawberry Mango</b>

The data I want to extract would be 'Orange', 'Apple' and 'Strawberry Mango' respectively. To put it in 'human code' I would write;

-Search file for '_ctrl_fruit_selected'
-Find the bold tags to the right of this
-Grab whatever text is between them

Putting this in computer code though, is baffling me. I know it has to have something to do with 'StringRegExp', but how to do it, I'm lost!

[GEOSoft]

You can do it without RegExp but it takes more steps

If StringInStr($Line, "_ctrl_fruit_selected" ) Then

$String = StringMid($Line, StringInStr($Line, "_ctrl_fruit_selected" ))

$String = StringMid($String, StringInStr($String, <b>)+4)

$String = StringMid($String, StringInStr($String, </b>)-1)

EndIf

StringRegExp is the way to go but wait for someone who likes RegExp

[Ropetin Again]

You can do it without RegExp but it takes more steps

If StringInStr($Line, "_ctrl_fruit_selected" ) Then

$String = StringMid($Line, StringInStr($Line, "_ctrl_fruit_selected" ))

$String = StringMid($String, StringInStr($String, <b>)+4)

$String = StringMid($String, StringInStr($String, </b>)-1)

EndIf

StringRegExp is the way to go but wait for someone who likes RegExp

GEOSoft, thank you! I hadn't thought of StringMid. I didn't quite do it like your suggestion, but I got it to work. Now to work on the next step!

[GEOSoft]

Glad it's working but I just looked and realized that the last stringmid should have been a stringLeft