Challenge #13: HTML Table Parsing

[EmanueleE]

my solution

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[dominiklz]

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this was a fun one to wake up in the morning 🙂 

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[adamp]

I'm in need of an assist on this one. I'm trying to work the problem all the way through without checking the solution... Thanks ahead of time for any help :)

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I've chosen to use RegEx to parse out the HTML. I've setup the RegEx tool as follows...



...and I'm getting tripped up on how to modify the regular expression to drop all that extra text coming into the first record without subsequently loosing text elsewhere...



Can someone throw me a hint and/or help me through the regular expression here?
1) I'm not 100% sure why the <td></td> at the beginning of Record#1 isn't coming back as its own record... wouldn't the asterik * in the RegEx allow for there being nothing between the <td> and </td> ?
2) I've tried putting a few of the characters from the "<table style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Times;font-size:12px;text-align:left;width:100%;border-spacing:0px; padding:3px 3px 3px 3px">" section of the string into the exclude portion of my RegEx only they don't seem to work. Probably because I'm not using them correctly or haven't positioned them correctly?  Altered Regular Expression <td>[^ "=].*?</td>

[bdaniels]

solution attached

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[CHarrison]

Probably could've cleaned this up a bit better, but it works 😉 

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[locunhalima]

My solution.

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[ivoller]

That one was fun. My solution was a little clunky until I saw the neat trick from @alex

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[joshuaburkhow]

A good one! 

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[dillon_bok]

Definitely not dynamic but here is my solution:

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[jsdeter]

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