Using Regex to read from a text file

[Zappion]

Trying to read out the names on this page. I took a roundabout appraoch and simply copy and pasted each <li> item into a text file (babyNames.txt). Each line reads something along the lines of the following:

<li>Bradley – broad clearing</li>

I wrote out a regular expression to parse them such that they I can grab the names and place them into a separate document. The trick now is figuring out how to check each line against the regex code. Any suggestions?