Regex for HTML using C#

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I'm trying to get the text "BlaBla" between the html tags with C#, but I get an error on the two \s regex's.
The text can have any character.

Regex:

C#

Match m = Regex.Match(file, "<h1 class=\"header\"> <span class=\"itemprop\" itemprop=\"name\">\s*(.+?)\s*</span>");

Example html:

HTML

<h1 class="header"> <span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">Text I_need</span> 
            <span class="nobr">(<a href="/year/2013/?ref_=tt_ov_inf" >2013</a>)</span>

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Posted 6-May-13 2:39am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-05-06T06:10:00

It's down to string processing: "\s" is the string you need in the regex, but it is being interpreted as a control code by the C# compiler. Replace it with "\\s" and it should be fine:

C#

Match m = Regex.Match(file, "<h1 class=\"header\"> <span class=\"itemprop\" itemprop=\"name\">\\s*(.+?)\\s*</span>");

(You could prefix the string with and '@' character, but then you would have to double up all the quotes, and remove the backslashes before them...)