VB6: alternative to the HTML Object Library (for parsing HTML)

Question

hi all,

i've been using the html object library for a while for parsing html. the library itself works perfectly, the only problem is that loading/initializing html using createDocumentFromUrl (even if it's a small file) takes much too long.

does anyone know an alternative component?

thx

Answer 1

You can add a reference to Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5 then use regular expressions to parse it. The general recommendation is don't try to use regular expressions to parse html, but if you are looking for only a few tags this might work for you.