Oh venerable Monks, I'm writing an HTML to TWiki converter to ease the porting of some documentation written using Word to a TWIki based Wiki. I'm about 90% there, but my brain is starting to seize. My current stumbling block is:

I have lines containing anchors like <a name="_Toc00123998"> that need to be moved to the start of the line for later processing. There may be many of these anchor tags per line. They may, or may not, be adjacent to each other.

Can anyone come up with a regex to do this trick? Before and after would look like:
Before: This is an anchor <a name="_Toc00123998">and these are another
+<a name="_Toc00123999"><a name="_Toc00124000"> couple.
After: <a name="_Toc00123998"><a name="_Toc00123999"><a name="_Toc0012
+4000">This is an anchor and these are another couple.

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Update 1: Arggh. Fix the missing quotes!

In reply to Moving sub-strings to the start of a line by GrandFather

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