how to scrape url out of href

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sorry paul-i'm an extremely beginner programmer, if that! ;-) can you
give me an example?

thanks in advance

Paul Rubin wrote:
> homepricemaps at gmail.com writes:
> > does anyone have sample code for scraping the actual url out of an href
> > like this one
> >
> > <a href="http://www.cnn.com" target="_blank">
>
> If you've got the tag by itself like that, just use a regexp to get
> the href out.