I just wrote a short script to parse out &lt;/&gt; and replace with </> in a DB(code below). But for some reason its not matching every symbol. For example, on the 12th line of a description I have:

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and for another I have:

<br>&lt;/pre&gt;<br>&lt;img src=http://blah.microsoft.com/analog_sc/bp
+/_lessons_learned/2788_1.jpg&gt;<br>&lt;br&gt;<br>&lt;img
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How can I match any &lt; and &gt;?
Thanks!

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w

use Win32::ODBC; 
use strict;

# MAKE CONNECTION AND QUERY ACCESS DATABASE 
my $connstring = "EPI_DB";
my $db = new Win32::ODBC($connstring) or die $!;
$db->Sql("SELECT entry_id, description FROM entry");
my $description;
my $entry_id;
while ($db->FetchRow()) {
    $description= $db->Data('description');
    $entry_id = $db->Data('entry_id');    
    
    tagremover($description);
    
    my $db2 = new Win32::ODBC($connstring) or die $!;
    $db2->Sql("UPDATE entry SET description='$description' WHERE entry
+_id=$entry_id");
}

print "Cleaning Complete\n";

$db->Close();

# FUNCTION TO CLEAN TAGS FROM DATABASE
sub tagremover {
        $_[0] =~ s/&lt;/</g; # REPLACES ALL HTML < SYMBOLS IN DB
        $_[0] =~ s/&gt;/>/g; # REPLACES ALL HTML > SYMBOLS IN DB
}
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