Question: I have a HTML fragment which contains two anchor tags in various parts of the HTML. 

```
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb_ContentMap">
    <span><a class="ms-sitemapdirectional" href="/">My Site</a></span>
    <span> &gt; </span>
    <span><a class="ms-sitemapdirectional" href="/Lists/Announcements/AllItems.aspx">Announcements</a></span>
    <span> &gt; </span>
    <span class="ms-sitemapdirectional">Settings</span>
</span>

```

I'm looking to write a regular expression that will return the second anchor tag, which has 'Announcements' as it's text. In trying to write an expression, I keep getting both anchor tags returned - but I'm only interested in the second tag.

Is it possible to match the second tag only?

**EDIT:**

I will always know that I'm looking for an anchor tag which has 'Announcements' in it's text, if that helps.

Answer: 
Parse the fragment into a DOM. Use XPath to issue:

```
(//a)[2]

```

Done.
```
/(<a.*?<\/a>).*?(<a.*?<\/a>)/

```

$1 matches the first tag, $2 matches the second