# Advanced substr method

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-substr-method/84997
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 1, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-substr-method/84997 "2005-04-01T02:25:06Z")
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### Author: ![jedhu0920](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jedhu0920/32/905_2.png) [@jedhu0920](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jedhu0920)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-substr-method/84997/1 "2005-04-01T02:25:06Z")

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I am trying to extract a substring from the following text:

* * *

\<p\>\<a href=“[http://www.flickr.com/people/tejana/](http://www.flickr.com/people/tejana/)”\>tejana\</a\> posted a photo:\</p\>

\<p\>\<a href=“[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tejana/8034026/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/tejana/8034026/)” title=“death with dignity”\>\<img src=“**[http://photos4.flickr.com/8034026\_8097013b46\_m.jpg](http://photos4.flickr.com/8034026_8097013b46_m.jpg)**” width=“240” height=“180” alt=“death with dignity” style=“border: 1px solid #000000;” /\>\</a\>\</p\>

\<p\>this amazingly deep red is a very rare hollyhock color.\</p\>

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Preferably, I want the substring to be only the path to the photo, specifically: [http://photos4.flickr.com/8034026\_8097013b46\_m.jpg](http://photos4.flickr.com/8034026_8097013b46_m.jpg)

Does anybody know any thrifty actionscript to extract this substring from the first string?