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RegEx Everything up to but not including (extracting hyperlink text)

I have a program that I'm working on that gets a directory list from a WebDav secure server (using HttpWebResponse). This list is returned as HTML. I'm trying to use RegEx to get the text that appears in the hyperlink (which is the name of a folder or file). I'm close, but not quite there...

Here's an example of what is returned on the request:

"<html><head><title>securetransfer.xxx.com - /localuser/</title></head><body><H1>securetransfer.xxx.com - /localuser/</H1><hr> <pre><A HREF="/">[To Parent Directory]</A><br><br> 2/26/2009 2:38 PM <dir> <A HREF="/localuser/Albe/">Albe</A><br> 3/5/2009 4:00 PM <dir> <A HREF="/localuser/Art/">Art</A><br> 3/23/2009 12:31 PM <dir> <A HREF="/localuser/Castle/">Castle</A><br> 2/19/2009 5:25 PM <dir> <A HREF="/localuser/CF/">CF</A><br> 3/16/2009 8:43 PM <dir> <A HREF="/localuser/CHI/">CHI</A><br> 2/19/2009 5:43 PM <dir> <A HREF="/localuser/CSE/">CSE</A><br></pre><hr></body></html>"

I've come up with a RegEx expression that will parse out the complete hyperlink:
"<a.*?>.*</a>"
- returns <A HREF=""/localuser/Albe/"">Albe</A>

With a small adjustment to the expression, I can exclude the anchor, and just get the text with the closing bracket:
"(?<=(<a.*?>)).*</a>"
- returns Albe</A>

I can't figure out how to get rid of the last bracket </A>. I've tried the following, to no avail:

"(?<=(<a.*?>)).*[^</a>]"
- returns Albe</A><br

"(?<=(<a.*?>)).*(?<=</a>)"
- returns Albe</A>

I appreciate anything you can think of.

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Fernando Soto

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VBRocks

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Sweet! Thank you so much for the help! I've been researching this most of the morning.

Fernando Soto

Not a problem, glad to help. ;=)

VBRocks

ASKER

The big tip was "Groups" (m.Groups(1).Value) I was just using m.Value.