Reading HTML files on the web

How can I read an HTML on the web and extract data from the HTML file into my VI. I am using SHDocVw.IWebBrowser2 activeX control to access the web page but I cannot figure out how to read the HTML into my VI. Is there an easy way to do this?
Jim

Hi Jose Perez,
First off, are you repeatedly searching the string for certain patterns, or just searching the string for the specified pattern once? If possible, your best bet may be to only search part of the string if you know that it will be in a consistent format, thereby eliminating large sections of the string. If you are searching in a cascading order (searching for one pattern that is always before the next ones), then you could split the string at the first pattern and only search the latter portion.
Also, you might want to consider making a new post since this thread is four years old.
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