Newb Trying to extract a substring...

I am trying to automate the copy/paste of various fields from Safari to a mailing application. Step one is collecting the data from the browser page. I discovered how to capture the source using a shell call to curl, and I've been merrily extracting fields based on delimeters that happen to appear. Until now.
I've got this string, "Label: EXL120-3D</td>
<td"
I'm fairly certain there is a CR/LF at the end of the </td>
I need to extract the "EXL120-3D" portion.
I thought I could extract what I want with something like:
copy characters 8 through (TmpStockNumLength - 14) of TmpStockNum as string
But that gives me: "E X L 1" which is not what I need. It's a series of characters and blanks, not my sub-string.
I don't get it.
Can someone help?
Thanks!
Steve

Woo Hoo!
Thank you! Although the initial try gave me <<event misccopy>> in place of the "copy" command, it did get me on the right trail, and I solved it with:
copy characters 8 through (TmpStockNumLength - 9) of TmpStockNum as string to StockNum
THANK YOU!
Steve

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