I need a regex to get stuff between <li> and </li>

[SlurrerOfSpeech]

What I'm ultimately tried to do is get the

Some Guy, Some Other Guy, Some Guy 2, Some W. Bush

from an expression like

<h2>Friends</h2><ul><li>Some Guy</li><li>Some Other Guy</li><li>Some Guy 2</li><li>Some W. Bush</li></ul>

This expression is in a much larger piece of text but is the only time an expression of this exact form is in it. I'm using

(?s)<h2>Friends</h2>.*?<ul>.*?</ul>

to get the expression and

<li>([a-zA-Z0-9. ]+)</li>

to get

<li>Some Guy</li>, <li>Some Other Guy</li>, <li>Some Guy 2</li> and <li>Some W. Bush</li>

, but I actually want what's BETWEEN the tags.

 

[mfb]

$1 or \1 (depending on the interpreter) will give the content of the first bracket instead of the full match, here the content inside the tags.
Alternatively, lookahead and lookbehind are an option, but more complicated and not necessary here.

 

[FactChecker]

What language and/or regular expression engine are you using?

 

[SlurrerOfSpeech]

What language and/or regular expression engine are you using?

C#.NET, System.Text.RegularExpressions

 

[adjacent]

Are you ok with using a loop to extract out the groups? Or should it be regex only?

 

[SlurrerOfSpeech]

Are you ok with using a loop to extract out the groups? Or should it be regex only?

Well, I don't see why it can't be done with https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.matches(v=vs.110).aspx

 

[mfb]

Hmm, I don't see how to get subpatterns there.

You can try (?<=<li>)[a-zA-Z0-9. ]+(?=</li>)
Lookahead and lookbehind