This is how I would try it in BBEdit: Find: <a .+?>(.+?)</a> Replace with: \1 "\1" should put back whatever was within the () in the find statement. On Apr 29, 2004, at 7:37 AM, Mehmet Buyukozer wrote: > I am trying to strip all links from any given web sites.I want to do > that > with regular expression but i don't know how i can do that.