While I'm looking at the responses, here's the requested data sample (read in from a file with a consistent name):

...<tr><td colspan="3">
<span><strong>SomeNameHere</strong></span> <span class="small">(Transa
+ction ID #5HN04039SW052A35R)</span><br><br>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr class="dotted"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><br class="h10"></td></tr>
...<td class="item-title" width="40%">Name of the first item</td>
<td align="center" class="qty" width="9%">14</td>...
<tr><td colspan="3"><hr class="dotted"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><br class="h10"></td></tr>
...<td class="item-title" width="40%">Name of the second item</td>
<td align="center" class="qty" width="9%">12</td>...

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From which I want to extract:

5HN04039SW052A35R

Name of the first item 14

Name of the second item 12

...

As you can see, there are varying lengths of unpredictable non-unique characters, quotation marks and angle brackets between the start string and the desired text. What is known is that they are always preceded somewhere by "Transaction ID", "item-title" and "qty" and terminated with a parenthesis for the transaction ID and "" tag for the item and quantity.

In reply to Re^2: Extracting variable-length strings between delimiters by PMReader
in thread Extracting variable-length strings between delimiters by PMReader

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