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I prototyped the following C# code in IMDB.cs to support "aliases". Should I change the script instead?

[CODE]    private void FindIMDB(string strURL, int iLimit)

    {

      string absoluteUri;

      string httpPage = GetPage(strURL, "utf-8", out absoluteUri);

      string httpString = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(httpPage);

      Match imdbEntry = Regex.Match(

        httpString,

        @"<tr>[\s]*

          <td[^>]*>.*?</td>[\s]*

          <td[^>]*>.*?</td>[\s]*

          <td[^>]*>.*?

            <a\shref=""(?<tt>/title/tt[0-9]*/)[^>]*>(?<title>.*?)</a>

            (?<options>.*?)[\s]*

            (?(?=<br>)(?<aka><br>.*?))

          </td>[\s]*

          </tr>",

        RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace | RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.Compiled);

      while (imdbEntry.Success)

      {

        string imdbTitle = imdbEntry.Groups["title"].Value.Replace("\"", "");

        string imdbURL = imdbEntry.Groups["tt"].Value;

        string imdbOptions = Regex.Replace(imdbEntry.Groups["options"].Value, @"<(.|\n)*?>", String.Empty,

                                            RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);

        IMDBUrl url = new IMDBUrl(@"http://us.imdb.com" + imdbURL, imdbTitle + @" " + imdbOptions + @" (imdb)", @"IMDB");

        elements.Add(url);

        imdbEntry = imdbEntry.NextMatch();

        string imdbAka = imdbEntry.Groups["aka"].Value;

        Match imdbAlias = Regex.Match(imdbAka, @"<br>\saka\s<em>""(?<alias>.*?)""</em>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);

        while (imdbAlias.Success)

        {

          imdbTitle = imdbAlias.Groups["alias"].Value;

          url = new IMDBUrl(@"http://us.imdb.com" + imdbURL, imdbTitle + @" " + imdbOptions + @" (imdb)", @"IMDB");

          elements.Add(url);

          imdbAlias = imdbAlias.NextMatch();

        }

      }

    }[/CODE]

My favorite western is "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly". Without this change I have to re-name the file to "Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il" to get an IMDB match. The above code adds aliases to the list of results so I can use the US english title instead of the published Italian name.

Rick