Help with extracting please folks.!

Hi. I have this:
a variable like: <a href="http://www.some_html.com/text.html"; >some
text</a><br>

I heed to extract the "http://www.some_html.com/text.html " and put
it in var "link"
And extract "some text" and put it var "text",.

So basically extract all between <a href=" and " >
plus extract all between " > and </a><br>.
Any idea? Thank you all for your help. Gada finish this project
tonight, or I am totally screwed with my exams..:)

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