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text matching in actionsript

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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bhups  2009-11-03 09:48:50
Thanks, that did the trick. To find all occurences I used the match() method of the string class and added the global flag to the expression (/<A.*?<\/A>/g;)var matches:Array = str.match(pattern);
Chin  2009-11-03 11:38:10

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