title: Eliminate all content between <> tags
body: <p>I have a set of a very large text in html format, and I want to eliminate all the content between the tags <code>&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;</code>. At some point at the outerside of the tags there is a name, which I want to get, like <code>&lt;a&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;a&gt;name&lt;a/&gt;&lt;a/&gt;&lt;a/&gt;</code>.
  I wrote a small program where I insert the long text I have, and by pressing a button, I get the text, substring the start till the next <code>&gt;</code> and then if the <code>content.Length</code> from the last <code>&gt;</code> until the next <code>&lt;</code> is greater than 1, then I insert it into a list.</p>
  
  <p>Basically I want to get all the names that are not in the <code>&lt;&gt;</code> tags and put them in a list. There are my contestants in a competition.</p>
  
  <p>The thing is the code doesn't work exactly as I hoped. It needs a small tweek and I'm a little confused.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Private Sub btnPickWinner_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnPickWinner.Click
      Dim vContestant As String = ""
      Dim vAllText As String = tbxText.Text
      Dim vList As New List(Of String)
      Dim vLength As Integer
      Dim vStrToCountLength As String
      While vAllText.Length &gt; 1
          vStrToCountLength = vAllText.Substring(0, vAllText.IndexOf("&gt;"))
          vLength = vAllText.Length - vStrToCountLength.Length
          vAllText = vAllText.Substring(vAllText.IndexOf("&gt;"), vLength)
          vContestant = vAllText.Substring(0, vAllText.IndexOf("&lt;"))
          If (vContestant.Length &gt; 1) Then
              vList.Add(vContestant)
          End If
      End While
  End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is a small sample of the text I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="_6a"&gt;&lt;div class="_6a _6b" style="height:50px"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="_6a _6b"&gt;&lt;div class="fsl fwb fcb"&gt;&lt;a href="abcde.com/?fref=pb&amp;amp;hc_location=profile_browser"; data-gt="{&amp;quot;engagement&amp;quot;:{&amp;quot;eng_type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;1&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;eng_s‌​rc&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;eng_tid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;673597072&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;eng_data&amp;q‌​uot;:[]}}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=673597072&amp;amp;extragetparams=%7B%22h‌​c_location%22%3A%22profile_browser%22%7D"&gt;Antonis Lambr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I only want to get the name "Antonis Lambr".
  The text I have is more than a million characters so I just pasted a very small sample here...</p>