how can I get the displayed text of a hyperlink converted to a string?

I use webread to get a string containing text and hyperlinks.

PageStr=webread('http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=IBM&m=2015-001','ContentType','text');

The PageStr contains hyperlinks displayed as underlined blue characters. When I attempt get a portion of PageStr containing text and a hyperlink

StrikeTmpStr=PageStr(StrikeIndex(I):StrikeIndex(I)+29)

The resulting StrikeTmpStr is missing the hyperlink.

Answer 1

[Brendan Hamm]

A hyperlink which is displayed is only part of a html command. For instance the following makes a link to the MathWorks website which reads MathWorks:

link = '<a href="http://mathworks.com">MathWorks</a>. More Text here.'

Notice I placed some more text after the link as well, just to show you. Now if I index where the text being shown is I extract only that portion, but lose the important information about where that points:

link(32:40)

but if I index to the entire link statement: '<a href ...>...</a>', I will get the link:

link(1:44)