Parsing HTML Table in C#

Question

I have an html page which contains a table and i want to parse that table in C# windows form

http://www.mufap.com.pk/payout-report.php?tab=01

Answer 1

Late on this, but a way to do what you ask using plain vanilla C# code may be the following

/// 

/// parses a table and returns a list containing all the data with columns separated by tabs
/// e.g.: records = getTable(doc, 0);
/// 
/// HtmlDocument to work with
/// table index (base 0)
/// list containing the table data
public List getTableData(HtmlDocument doc, int number)
{
  HtmlElementCollection tables = doc.GetElementsByTagName("table");
  int idx=0;
  List data = new List();

  foreach (HtmlElement tbl in tables)
  {
    if (idx++ == number)
    {
      data = getTableData(tbl);
      break;
    }
  }
  return data;
}

/// 

/// parses a table and returns a list containing all the data with columns separated by tabs
/// e.g.: records = getTable(getElement(doc, "table", "id", "table1"));
/// 
/// HtmlElement table to work with
/// list containing the table data
public List getTableData(HtmlElement tbl)
{
  int nrec = 0;
  List data = new List();
  string rowBuff;

  HtmlElementCollection rows = tbl.GetElementsByTagName("tr");
  HtmlElementCollection cols;
  foreach (HtmlElement tr in rows)
  {
    cols = tr.GetElementsByTagName("td");
    nrec++;
    rowBuff = nrec.ToString();
    foreach (HtmlElement td in cols)
    {
      rowBuff += "\t" + WebUtility.HtmlDecode(td.InnerText);
    }
    data.Add(rowBuff);
  }

  return data;
}

the above will allow you to extract data from a table either by using the table "index" inside the page (useful for unnamed tables) or by passing the "table" HtmlElement to the function (faster but only useful for named tables); notice that I choose to return a "List" as the result and separating the various columns data using a tab character; you may easily change the code to return the data in whatever other format you prefer