<H1 style="FLOAT: none" class="marb2 marr10">2271 Knapp St #1C, <SPAN class=subaddress>Brooklyn NY 11229</SPAN> </H1>

<DIV class="property_details clear">3 br <SPAN class=vbar>|</SPAN> 1 ba <SPAN class=vbar>|</SPAN> 1,100 sqft <SPAN class=vbar>|</SPAN> Coop </DIV></DIV>

I want to capture the 1,100 sqft (or ideally just the 1,100) The problem is it is too hard to find a specific tags. Is there another method to use? Is reg ex possible? I have isolated this chuck of html as source variable already.

thanks

Did you try a wildcard like:

Copy Text Between from <DIV class="property_details clear">*|</SPAN> till sqft.

Regards,
Tijn

You can also use a regex.

See the match regex action example.

thanks, but using the above tag you mentioned with the wildcard

<DIV class="property_details clear">*|</SPAN>

captures the first instance of |</span> and not the second one, so it actually returns 1 ba <SPAN class=vbar>|</SPAN> 1,100

i tried 2 wildcards and that did not work, any recommendations? i am using business edition.

Two wildcards should do the trick.
See the attached example.
Tijn

thanks, that worked i was placing ** right after each other and not between the </span> tags like you did, thanks for continuing to answer on such a same detail...


when using reg-ex to locate text to extract in html source, does it also follow the cursor position rule?

it seems using html "from/to" tags to isolate text can cause issues since it starts its next search where the last one left off (before.after search string)

would you say reg-ex is better then html tags, if not pl explain.

thanks