irregular expression

[tvogelaar at de-mare.nl]

Hi,

I have a problem with regular expressions. I want to use
put replacetext(myVar,"</?a[^>]*>","") into myVar
to delete all hyperlinks form a HTML file. I am totally convinced the regular
expression is correct since it works correctly in another GREP-enabled
application (BBEdit). Yet the line of code doesn't change a thing; all
hyperlink tags are still there. How can this be?

Terry