Definitely using some form of parsing system. Do not not a regex for this. Here's some sample HTML from a document that is routinely sent to us:

<A HREF="

010410zed2.pdf

 " target="_blank"><B><font size="-2" face="arial">view cutting



</b></A>
[download]

Guess what? Browsers have no problem with that. It's annoying as heck, but it works. I found it difficult to follow even reading it, much less trying to write a regex that would parse stuff like that accurately. Play it safe. Use a parser.

Cheers,
Ovid

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