Regex: Extracting text between two HTML tags

Hello,
the common answer to this question would be
<tag>(.*)</tag>
or
<tag>[^<]*But I have LFs (and whitespace) around the tags:
<html>
<body>
One text line to be retrieved.
</body>
</html>So I tried
(?s)<body>(.*)</body>But that didn't help.
What's missing?

Thanks for your replies.
@Sabre
I tried your suggestion with the following code to no avail
import java.util.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
public class X {
public static void main(String[] args) {
      String s=
"<html>\n"+
" <head>\n"+
"\n"+
" </head>\n"+
" <body>\n"+
"    One <u>text line</u> to be retrieved.\n"+
" </body>\n"+
"</html>";
    String regex= "<body>([^<]*)</body>";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex); // Create the pattern.
    Matcher matcher = p.matcher(s); // Create the matcher with the string.
    while (matcher.find()) {
      System.out.printf("Found: \"%s\" from %d to %d.%n",
               matcher.group(), matcher.start(), matcher.end()-1);
}@ejp
Paul had a similar objection. But as I've written, my html string will always have this same structure and all I have to do is to extract the text. So if regex doesn't work in that case, I'd rather prefer two indexOf-s instead of bothering a parser.

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