Does anyone know of an object within the Microsoft environment that will allow you to parse an html file? What I'm wanting to do is to write a program that reads an html file and finds all the <a name="..."> tags.
I'd like to be able to get the value of the name text, as well as the string that is between the <a name> and the </a> tags.

Obviously, I can write a program and parse through this myself, but I was just figuring that if there's already something for doing that, like I can do now with xml files, then I'd like to use that instead of writing my own.

Use ASP "Regular Expression Patterns"
Just search Google for info.

I was thinking of something more in line with using the MSHTML document object, doing a CreateDocumentFromURL to get the document object, and then loop through tags, looking for the ones that are <a name tags.
The thing is, I'm not sure I can restrict it to <a name. I think I can only look for anchors (ie. <a ) and then figure out which ones are name and which are href type tags. Just wondering if anyone else has experience with this.
I've done a little bit in javascript, but never in vb and so I'm anxious to try.
If I can get it in vb, then I'll do it in vbscript as well, just for fun.

I think ASP regular expression patterns (VB Script) is what you need like:
(?<anchor><\s*a\s*(??:\b\w+\b\s*(?:=\s*(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^"'<> ]+)\s*)?)*)/?\s*>)(?<linktext>.*)<\s*/a\s*>

to find both anchors <a name= and links <a href=
This is the asp forum right?

kline11, I think what he is asking is whether there is an easier or perhaps more efficient way than REGEXP. I don't think there is though.

yeah. and I'm aware that I can use regular expressions, and I'm also aware that this is supposed to be about ASP. I am also aware that I can access various dlls, such as MSHTML from asp. That's why I asked.