Regular expression - exclude not needed

Question

My brain's flooding. Really thanks to all who already helped yesterday. (If I add anything to the thread of yesterday, it's not shown by the newest questions?)

Maybe someone can try to help again; it's so important for me :S

<ul>
<li>
07.05.2009:
<a href="#1">Test 1</a>
</li>
<li>
05.01.2009:
<a href="#2">Test 2</a>
</li>
</ul>

This time I need to read the second part. The best thing would be if I get both separately in one regex.

So:

1. 07.05.2009
2. Test 1

I try with this

<li>.*?</li>(.*)</a></li>

but I need to exclude also all before Test 1 and Test 2

Answer 1

You can try

<li>([^:<]*)[^<]*<a[^>]*>([^<]*)

Answer 2

I second Johannes Rössel, but I would cut away the line breaks in front of the date part with

<li>[\s]*([^:<]*)[^<]*<a[^>]*>([^<]*)

Answer 3

try

<li>([^>]*)<a[^>]*>([^>]*)</a></li>