Question

so im trying to figure out regular expressions in Flex, but cant for the life of me figure out how to do the following.
From the sample below, i need to extract out only “Mike_Mercury”.

So i have to somehow strip out everything around it with RegExp, or whatever’s best. Also, I would need it to work with other samples as well. Im getting this from the reddit api, so id have to extract that same section from a whole bunch of these. Thanks!

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                    <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/q2sfe/barack_obamas_insightful_words_on_abortion/">
                        <img src="http://d.thumbs.redditmedia.com/9StfiHi7hEbf8v73.jpg" alt="Barack Obama's insightful words on abortion"
                            title="Barack Obama's insightful words on abortion" /></a>
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                    submitted by <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/Mike_Mercury">Mike_Mercury </a>
                    to <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/">atheism</a>
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                    <a href="http://imgur.com/lKFYr">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/q2sfe/barack_obamas_insightful_words_on_abortion/">
                        [1722 comments]</a>
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Answer 1

Try this regex:

submitted by <a href=".*?">(.*?)</a>