Getting specified HTML/TEXT pattern

[crapped]

Well is there any built-in function to do this ?, or 3rd party library

EXAMPLE code

source := Sock.Get('http://www.google.com/');

if source('Google Search Engine', a) > 0 then 
begin
 NeededPattern := GetPattern(source, '<font>','</font>');
 result := neededPattern; // will display ABC of the <font>ABC</font>
end;

Then it will get the middle of the font HTML result

[dlhale]

There is no builtin function for what you want. It is easy to create though.

Use Pos to find the "<font>" and get the position of the "<". Then add the length of "<font>" to get the position of the desired text.

Then use PosEx to find the position of the first "</font>" after the desired text and calculate the length of the text;

Then use Copy to extract the desired text;

function GetPattern(Source, before, after : String) : String;
  var
    p, l : Integer;
  begin
  p := Pos(Source, before);
  if p < 1 then
    begin
    result := '';
    end
  else
    begin
    p := p + Length(before);
    l := PosEx(Source, after, p);
    if l < 1 then
      begin
      result := '';
      end
    else 
      begin
      l := l - p;
      result := copy(Source, p, l);
      end;
    end;
  end;

[pritaeas]

Delphi includes RegularExpressions with which you can do this, but am not sure from which version. For earlier version TPerlRegex is available (3rd party).