escape special characters like <;>,\

Question

I am trying to read the character between > and in the apex. For this, I have used below :

1. message.substringBetween('>','</font>');
2. message.substringBetween('&gt','&lt/font&gt');
3. message.substringBetween('>','');

But none of the above is working.
Can anyone suggest, how can I read above character?