Organizing information from a text file in a list

[S1L3NT J]

I'm new with this... I'm trying to make a program so I can open a text file, take the information in that file, and organize it in a list, but I can't figure out how to do it exactly.

In visual basic, how would I change this:

<NAME>Joe Somebody</NAME>

into:

Joe Somebody

I want to be able to ignore "<NAME>" and "</NAME>" and output "Joe Somebody" into the organized list, but I don't want it to work only with
Joe Somebody. I want it to work with other names too. I also want to be able to edit that information, and export it the same way as the text file.

Can that be done with Visual Basic?

[LexGixxer]

Assuming <NAME>Joe Somebody</NAME> is in a variable eg strJS

Dim strVar as string = Replace(strJS,"<NAME>","")
strVar=Replace(strVar,"</NAME>","")