in reply to extracting link *and* tag content from "a href"

   <A HREF=?ad=049>One</A>
   <A HREF=?ad=050>Two</A>

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This isn't HTML, so you might have problems with standard HTML parsers. In fact, I'd hope to never run across a page that looks like that.

Standard acceptable HTML will need to quote those attribute values.

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