How to match text after a tag using jquery?

I am trying to reformat the following text using jquery:

<a href="3.3/">3.3/</a>                                               14-Apr-2011 14:43                   -
<a href="3.4.2/">3.4.2/</a>                                             06-Jun-2011 11:20                   -
<a href="3.8/">3.8/</a>                                               01-Jun-2011 16:27                   -

I am wrapping the links with li tags no problem there, but trying to extract the date and get rid of the rest of the text 开发者_如何学Gocruft is hurting my brain. I have looked a the jQuery text selectors but nothing seems to be popping up for me suggestions?

In an ideal world I would have something like this at the end of the day:

<li><a href="3.3/">3.3/</a><br><p>14-Apr-2011 14:43</p></li>

Since you want to isolate definable patterns in your content I would use regular expressions to parse out the data you're looking for then reformat that data as needed. Here is a basic example:

$(document).ready(function () {
    var input = $('#content').html();           // Get content from #content container
    var regex = /^(<a.+<\/a>)\s+(\S+)/gm;       // Setup regex to extract anchor & date

    // Execute regex against input and return subpattern matches
    while( result = regex.exec(input) )
    {
        // Add formatted output to <ul>
        $('ul').append("<li>" + result[1] + "<br><p>" + result[2] + "</p></li>");
    }
});

This example assumes that your input string is inside the element #content and that you want to append your newly created <li>'s to <ul>, which may not be the case. However, both assumptions should be easy for you to adapt to your needs.