title: Get the value of an HTML element
body: <p>I have the HTML code of a webpage in a text file. I'd like my program to return the value that is in a tag. E.g. I want to get "Julius" out of</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span class="hidden first"&gt;Julius&lt;/span&gt;
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  <p>Do I need regular expression for this? Otherwise what is a string function that can do it?</p>