<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
                  <td align="right" width="32%" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b><
+font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-seri
f">Firstname:</font></b></td>
                  <td width="68%" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><font face="Verdan
+a, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">&nbsp;</font><
/td>
                </tr>
                <tr bgcolor="#F4F4ED">
                  <td align="right" width="32%"><b><font face="Verdana
+, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Lastname:</font
></b></td>
                  <td width="68%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetic
+a, sans-serif" size="1">Luc Bomans&nbsp;</font></td>
                </tr>

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I needed to parse the first and lastname out of a html page. But I still need to know what is the first and the last when matching.
Tried a lot, but my regex suck on these big things!!!
Can smo plz point me to the light...


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