Problem with pattern matches for checked items in listview

Hi guys,

I need your help, I have a problem with the matches pattern for the checked items in the listview. I couldn't be able to find the solution by when I selected the checkboxes items in the listview and when I clicked on the button, the messagebox is suppose to be displaying but nothing have happens.

What I am trying to achieve is to find the matches in pattern that I have ticked the checkboxes items in the listview, then find the strings in my website that matched with the checked items in the listview and find the html tags id from the html source, e.g: www.mysite.com/images?user=tester&id=1. Then display the messagebox.

PHP:

PHP Code:

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<p id="images"> <a href="images.php?id=?">Images</a></td> 


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The Code:

Code:

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private: System::Void Button1_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {


                        for each (ListViewItem ^item in this->listView1->CheckedItems)
                        {
                                try
                                {
                                        String ^URL1 = "http://www.mysite.com/link.php?user=tester";
                                          HttpWebRequest ^request1 = safe_cast<HttpWebRequest^>(WebRequest::Create(URL1));
                                          HttpWebResponse ^response1 = safe_cast<HttpWebResponse^>(request1->GetResponse());
                                          StreamReader ^reader1 = gcnew StreamReader(response1->GetResponseStream());
                                          String ^str1 = reader1->ReadToEnd();
                                          String ^pattern1 = item->Text + "(<p id='images'>(.*?)</p>)";
                                          MatchCollection ^matches1 = Regex::Matches(str1, pattern1);
                                          Match ^m1 = Regex::Match(str1, pattern1);


                                        for each (Match ^x1 in matches1)
                                        {
                                                array<String^> ^StrArr1 = x1->Value->ToString()->Split();
                                                String ^test = (URL1 + x1->Value->ToString());
                                                MessageBox::Show(test);
                                        }
                                }
                                catch (Exception ^ex)
                                {

                                }
                        }

                }

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I am definately sure that the html tags has the correct tags name.

Any idea?

two days have passed and no one have reply. do anyone know how to fix this?

1. have you verified that the web request is returning valid data?
2. have you verified that item->text contains a vaild regex string?
3. does matches1 contain any items?

also, do the web request once, and search the response multiple times. no reason to go to the web 50 times, if the content is the same every time.

Well, first of all this isn't C++, but C++/CLI. There are good reasons to use .NET and good reasons to use native C++ but I can guarantee that you don't have a valid reason to use C++/CLI. C++/CLI combines the drawbacks of both. It's the cryptic C++ syntax combines with the inferior .NET performance.

Anyway... where does it fail? All you told us is that "it doesn't work". I can see that you catch and silently swallow any exception so for all we know it could crash in the very first line. Have you set a breakpoint and checked what happens? How many matches are in the collection?

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Originally Posted by nvoigt

Well, first of all this isn't C++, but C++/CLI. There are good reasons to use .NET and good reasons to use native C++ but I can guarantee that you don't have a valid reason to use C++/CLI. C++/CLI combines the drawbacks of both. It's the cryptic C++ syntax combines with the inferior .NET performance.

Anyway... where does it fail? All you told us is that "it doesn't work". I can see that you catch and silently swallow any exception so for all we know it could crash in the very first line. Have you set a breakpoint and checked what happens? How many matches are in the collection?

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I am using C++/CLI, so I don't see anything wrong with between unmanaged C++ and managed C++/CLI.

However, I have put the breakpoint in this line:

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String ^pattern1 = listView1->SelectedItems[0]->SubItems[1]->Text + "(<p id='images'>(.*?)</p>)";

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I can see that I have got an undefined value.

When I tried this:

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String ^ pattern1 = listView1->SelectedItems[0]->SubItems[1]->Text;

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I have found my matched strings from the http request and the listview without using the regex pattern, so when I tried this:

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String ^ pattern1 = listView1->SelectedItems[0]->SubItems[1]->Text + "(<p id='images'>(.*?)</p>)";

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I did not get the returned strings, so what i am trying to do is to find the matched strings that I selected in the listview and find the html tags called images, then extract the link from the tags, e.g:

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<p id="images"> <a href="images.php?id=1">Images</a>

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I want the return strings to be like this:

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www.mysite.com/images.php?id=1 


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Any idea how I can do this?

Thanks in advance.

have you considered parsing the HTML document as HTML instead of searching it with a regular expression? then you can grab all the <p> tags (probably with an xpath query) and examine their attributes.

I'm not a regex expert and I don't have C++/CLI at home, but here's what I would do:

Take your regex and data and try an online regex tester if matches are generated at all. Maybe your regex has errors.

If all is fine, put both into fixed strings inside a test application (ConsoleApplication1...) and see if matches are generated.

You need to break your problem into many smaller steps until you know which fails and which still works. Then look for a solution.

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Originally Posted by Elkvis

have you considered parsing the HTML document as HTML instead of searching it with a regular expression? then you can grab all the <p> tags (probably with an xpath query) and examine their attributes.

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no i have never been using to parsing the html document. do you know how to use it?

have a look at this link

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Originally Posted by Elkvis

have a look at this link

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That wont work and it won't do anything so you are not making a sense for what i didn't asked for.

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Originally Posted by mark103

That wont work and it won't do anything so you are not making a sense for what i didn't asked for.

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Anyway, I have nearly found the solution. I have changed the value in the regex pattern and I have pointed the break point in this line:

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Match ^m1 = Regex::Match(str1, pattern1);

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Here's the value of the pattern1:

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"my strings 1<p id='images'>(.*?)</p>"

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It have found the matches with the html tag, but it doesn't extract the id. So here's the html tags:

PHP Code:

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<p id="images"> <a href="images.php?id=1">Images</a> 


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Do you know how I can extract the id in the images tags from the html source?

Any idea how I can do this?

Thanks in advance.

3 days have passed and nobody have reply. do anyone know how to fix this?

Did you

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Take your regex and data and try an online regex tester if matches are generated at all. Maybe your regex has errors.

If all is fine, put both into fixed strings inside a test application (ConsoleApplication1...) and see if matches are generated.

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?

If so, can you post this test application so we have something to work with except theories?