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    copied!<p>If that is your string, then you can get the material bounded by the strings 'A HREF="' using strsplit</p> <pre><code>txt &lt;- '&lt;/TABLE&gt; &lt;BR&gt; &lt;BR&gt; &lt;FONT FACE="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica" SIZE="-1" COLOR="#990000"&gt;&lt;B&gt; Message has 2 Replies: &lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt; &lt;TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"&gt; &lt;TR VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"&gt;&lt;TD ALIGN=LEFT&gt;&lt;A HREF="/dear-lego/?n=14"&gt;&lt;IMG BORDER=5 HEIGHT=3 WIDTH=3 SRC="/news/x.gif"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE="-2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD ALIGN=LEFT&gt;&lt;FONT FACE="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica" SIZE="-2"&gt;&lt;A HREF="/dear-lego/?n=14"&gt;Re: Plate Paks&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD ALIGN=RIGHT&gt;&lt;FONT FACE="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica" SIZE="-2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tom Stangl&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR BGCOLOR="#F8F8F8"&gt;&lt;TD COLSPAN=4 ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP&gt;&lt;FONT FACE="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica" SIZE="-2" ' </code></pre> <p>This is the second fragment:</p> <pre><code>&gt; strsplit(txt, split='A HREF="')[[1]][2] [1] "/dear-lego/?n=14\"&gt;&lt;IMG BORDER=5 HEIGHT=3 WIDTH=3 SRC=\"/news/x.gif\"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=\"-2\"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD ALIGN=LEFT&gt;&lt;FONT FACE=\"Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica\" SIZE=\"-2\"&gt;&lt;" </code></pre> <p>There are probably real XML and HTML processing steps but they generally require an example with all the headers and you have removed all those.</p>
 

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