Regular Expressions PLz HELP!!!

[Vb Gangsta]

Hi, In my program it gets the webpages html. THe web sites URL is onder the variable url .I now need to get certain information from it. i need all the words between "> and </a>. You see it goes in a pattern. THe words are in red. theres like 100 names on each webpage. I am really desperate so could some one tell me in detail how to use regular expressions. Thanks very much

 

 

<tr>

<td width="13%" bgcolor="#494949" align="center">302</td>

<td width="45%" bgcolor="#494949"><a href="profile.php?id=471916">jerkass </a></td>

<td width="19%" bgcolor="#494949">32,755</td>

<td width="23%" bgcolor="#494949">$4,225,896</td>

<td width="23%" bgcolor="#494949">$0</td>

</tr>

 

<tr>

<td width="13%" align="center">303</td>

<td width="45%"><a href="profile.php?id=1005793">Laser28 </a></td>

<td width="19%">32,686</td>

<td width="23%">$0</td>

<td width="23%">$31,160,354</td>

</tr>

 

<tr>

<td width="13%" bgcolor="#494949" align="center">304</td>

<td width="45%" bgcolor="#494949"><a href="profile.php?id=869471">Mephew </a></td>

<td width="19%" bgcolor="#494949">32,534</td>

<td width="23%" bgcolor="#494949">$717,989</td>

<td width="23%" bgcolor="#494949">$100,000,000</td>

</tr>

 

[wyrd]

Maybe something like this;

 

<a\s+href="profile.php?id=\d+">(?<name>\w+)</a>

Edited October 2, 2003 by wyrd