I need to extract some data from a web page that I'm parsing, using
regular expressions to find matches I'm interested in.  In particular,
I'm trying to extract the text from between <A> and </A>.  The <A> does
have several attributes which I don't care about.  The reg. exp. I'm
trying to use is:

<a class=((.)+?) id=((.)+?)</a>

I'm after anchors that have a class & id attributes as the 1st ones.
This pattern works for most of the page I'm parsing, but it hangs when
there's extra spaces in the tag, for instance: if the html starts like:

<a       class=t id= .....

or

<a class=t      id= .....

the pattern does NOT match since the extra spaces between things, but
in fact it's an anchor that I do want to extract.  How can I ignore
those extra spaces?

Thanks.