Regex of formatted text?

The text I am trying to put my pattern into is:

Code:

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                <li class="hp">
                        <span>HP</span>
                        <strong>1850 (+300)</strong>
                </li>

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thats the format...

The (+300) can go away...i'd really only like to return just the 1850.

How would I do that in code?

with the multiple lines like that?

This should do it:

Code:

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chr(9) & chr(9) & "<li class=""hp"">" & chr(13) & chr(10) & chr(9) & chr(9) & chr(9) & "<span>HP</span>" & chr(13) & chr(10) & chr(9) & chr(9) & chr(9) & "<strong>([^( ]+)"

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Code:

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Try
        Debug.Print(Regex.Match(strText, chr(9) & chr(9) & "<li class=""hp"">" & chr(13) & chr(10) & chr(9) & chr(9) & chr(9) & "<span>HP</span>" & chr(13) & chr(10) & chr(9) & chr(9) & chr(9) & "<strong>([^( ]+)").Groups(1).Value)
Catch ex As ArgumentException
        'Syntax error in the regular expression
End Try

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