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Asked: 2026-05-12T21:17:13+00:00

Hi I have some html text coming from an rich text control. something like:

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Hi I have some html text coming from an rich text control.
something like:

<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0000FF"   LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"><A HREF="event:http://bbc.co.uk" TARGET="_blank"><U>l</U></A><U>ink1</U><FONT COLOR="#000000"> blah blah blah. another <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><A HREF="event:http://cnet.com" TARGET="_blank"><U>link2</U></A></FONT> blah blah</FONT></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

I would like to extract all A tags ie:

<A HREF="event:http://cnet.com" TARGET="_blank"><U>link2</U></A>

Should I be looking into reg expressions or are there any string utils that would accomplish this.

Any hints/help much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yaa, You need to look into regular expressions because String utilities are basic String manipulation techniques. You can start with this:

    var pattern:RegExp = /<A.*?</A>/;
var str:String = '<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0000FF"   LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"><A HREF="event:http://bbc.co.uk" TARGET="_blank"><U>l</U></A><U>ink1</U><FONT COLOR="#000000"> blah blah blah. another <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><A HREF="event:http://cnet.com" TARGET="_blank"><U>link2</U></A></FONT> blah blah</FONT></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>';
trace(pattern.exec(str));

    It will output <A HREF="event:http://bbc.co.uk" TARGET="_blank"><U>l</U></A>.

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