How would I effectively parse the href attribute value from this :
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">7</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
<a class="undMe" href="/ice/player.htm?id=8475179" rel="skaterLinkData" shape="rect">D. Kulikov</a>
</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">D</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">0</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">0</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">0</td>
[...]
I am interested in having the player id, which is: 8475179 Here is the code I have so far:
// Iterate all rows (players)
for (int i = 1; i < rows.Count; ++i)
{
HtmlNodeCollection cols = rows[i].SelectNodes(".//td");
// new player
Dim_Player player = new Dim_Player();
// Iterate all columns in this row
for (int j = 1; j < 6; ++j)
{
switch (j) {
case 1: player.Name = cols[j].InnerText;
player.Player_id = Int32.Parse(/* this is where I want to parse the href value */);
break;
case 2: player.Position = cols[j].InnerText; break;
case 3: stats.Goals = Int32.Parse(cols[j].InnerText); break;
case 4: stats.Assists = Int32.Parse(cols[j].InnerText); break;
case 5: stats.Points = Int32.Parse(cols[j].InnerText); break;
}
}
Based on your example this worked for me:
HtmlDocument htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.Load("test.html");
var link = htmlDoc.DocumentNode
.Descendants("a")
.First(x => x.Attributes["class"] != null
&& x.Attributes["class"].Value == "undMe");
string hrefValue = link.Attributes["href"].Value;
long playerId = Convert.ToInt64(hrefValue.Split('=')[1]);
For real use you need to add error checking etc.