What qualifies as parsing 'out of it' ? Are you trying to remove it from the string, or pull it out for use in something else (without modifying the original string)? Do you want to remote it, and save it for use? If you remove it, and it was the only thing on the line, do you also want to remove the now blank line?

Also, could you show your loop? You didn't say if you're working on the data in place, or moving into some other strcture.