Question Problem with Regex.split(input, pattern)

[andyvl]

Hello,

I'm having troubles with the Regex options.

I'm writing a program to retrieve info from an intranetpage
so my input is the sourcecode of a webpage.

Now I need to retrieve info and I want to have the text split.

garbage

Operations (France Paris)
<table>.........<\table>

Operations (India Chennai)
<table>.......<\table>
(note, there are only 5 countries we work with)

garbage



Now I want to find a way to have the string searched and put it in a string()

So search the string for Operations (one of the 5 possible countries) if it occures, split until the next </table>


But I can't even get the regex to find the pattern "operations (india chennai)"
I've been messing with escapechars etc but he just don't cut the string

   Dim searchPattern As String = "(\btitles)"
   Dim tmp() As String = Regex.Split(tekst, SearchPattern)

tekst is from the type String and contains the full sourcecode of the webpage



Can somebody please help me and put me on the right track

 

[andyvl]

For the moment I'm trying a workaround.
(not very performant but I don't think regex is the best sollution for my problem. (certainly not in 1 command)

so for the moment I managed to split on the html tag <table>

I receive a lot of garbage strings but now the strings I need to get info of start with 'operations xxxx' so now I can make a check
if the string.startswith("Operations xxx") and do actions accordingly.

 

[andyvl]

I find the regex a real pain in the ass



what I want is that my string is splitted after the exact combination of bellow special chars
;">

but I don't manage to get the " sign in my pattern. Tried ascii value (")
can please somebody tell me how to get the " sign in my regex pattern