Use regex to find specific string not in html tag

Question

I\'m having some difficulty with a specific Regex I\'m trying to use. I\'m searching for every occurrence of a string (for my purposes, I\'ll say it\'s \"mystring\") i

Answer 1

Why use regex?

For xhtml, load it into XDocument / XmlDocument; for (non-x)html the Html Agility Pack would seem a more sensible choice...

Either way, that will parse the html into a DOM so you can iterate over the nodes and inspect them.