Need help forming regular expression

[rajasekharan]

Hi,

I am trying to create a internet crawler and am having problems with detecting the links on a page.

I just want to match somethng like this:

<a...>.....</a>


... - everything in between.
So far I have:

<[aA][ ]*[^>]*>.*</a>

I have having problems with matching stuff after the > and before the </a>. Sometimes even the </a> gets matched as part of the .* and i get everything until the next </a> shows up in the page.

What do you think is the right expression?