String manipluation, how to extract an HTML element value easily?

There are many times I need to extract value of an element from a HTML page. Something like this:

<!-- many html here -->
<input type="hidden" name=开发者_开发知识库"id" value="ExtractMe!">
<!-- many html here -->

How can extract the value easily?

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Have a look at the HTMLAgility pack, it makes this type of task very easy and regex-free.

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If you need to parse HTML within your C# application consider using HTMLAgilityPack from here http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/

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If you just want to pluck values you're probably best to parse this as XML. You have a choice of standard XML or LINQ.

have a look here or here for some examples.

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Why don't you use regular expressions? This the MSDN Regular Expression Documentation, in there you can look for The section Extracting a Single Match or the First Match.