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Thank you. I just now realized that it's not just the class= but all elements (border, width, colspan) have the possibility of not having quotes around them. Guess I will go back to the drawing board. Thanks again.

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Re^3: Strange regex needed
by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 20, 2014 at 00:16 UTC 
    $string =~ s/\b(class|border|width|colspan)=([^" &]+)/$1="$2"/g;

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