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In Matlab R13 I'm trying to do the following :
text = sscanf('<A>blabla</A>','<A>%s</A>')

which results in : 
text = blabla</A>

Obviously I wanted :
text = blabla

Any ideas on how to do this ? Is regexp a way out ?