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Do not use regular expressions to parse HTML or XML.

use warnings;
use strict;
use Mojo::DOM;

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new(<<'HTML');
<div id="taglines_content" class="header">
    <div class="header">
        <div class="nav">
            <div class="desc">Showing all 3 taglines</div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="soda odd">Power. Grace. Wisdom. Wonder.</div>
    <div class="soda even">Wonder. Power. Courage.</div>
    <div class="soda odd">The future of justice begins with her</div>
</div>
HTML

$dom->find('.soda')->each(sub { print "$_\n" });

__END__

<div class="soda odd">Power. Grace. Wisdom. Wonder.</div>
<div class="soda even">Wonder. Power. Courage.</div>
<div class="soda odd">The future of justice begins with her</div>

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Re^2: I match a pattern in regex, yet I don't get the group I wanted to extract for some reason
by SergioQ (Scribe) on Jan 12, 2021 at 17:47 UTC

    use Mojo::DOM

    That did it, and was much cleaner, thank you.

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      Glad to hear it! I noticed that in your code you have my $tagl =  $resp->decoded_content;, so I assume you're using an HTTP client to get the HTML. Note that Mojolicious includes Mojo::UserAgent, which has direct integration with Mojo::DOM - I showed an example here.

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        Forgive me, because I'm still trying to find the finesse of Mojo::DOM.

        Below is the first return I get from $dom->find('.ipl-zebra-list');

        But I want to narrow it to the table class that has "USA", which right below it has the class "release-date-tem"m which has the date.

        Certainly there must be some sort of "tree" functionality that I can use in Mojo::DOM to get to that last line. I promise you, I'm not just asking you to get the answer. At the same time I am scouring the internet for examples.

        Thanks for all your help so far.

        <table class="ipl-zebra-list ipl-zebra-list--fixed-first release-dates
+-table-test-only">
                <tr class="ipl-zebra-list__item release-date-item">
                    <td class="release-date-item__country-name"><a hre
+f="/calendar/?region=au&amp;ref_=ttrel_rel_1">Australia
</a></td>
<td align="right" class="release-date-item__date">17 July 2020</td>   
+                     <td align="left" class="release-date-item__attri
+butes">                            (internet)
</td>
                </tr>
                <tr class="ipl-zebra-list__item release-date-item">
                    <td class="release-date-item__country-name"><a hre
+f="/calendar/?region=nz&amp;ref_=ttrel_rel_2">New Zealand
</a></td>
<td align="right" class="release-date-item__date">17 July 2020</td>   
+                     <td align="left" class="release-date-item__attri
+butes">                            (internet)
</td>
                </tr>
                <tr class="ipl-zebra-list__item release-date-item">
                    <td class="release-date-item__country-name"><a hre
+f="/calendar/?region=sg&amp;ref_=ttrel_rel_3">Singapore
</a></td>
<td align="right" class="release-date-item__date">10 December 2020</td
+>                        <td align="left" class="release-date-item__a
+ttributes">                            (limited)
</td>
                </tr>
                <tr class="ipl-zebra-list__item release-date-item">
                    <td class="release-date-item__country-name"><a hre
+f="/calendar/?region=ca&amp;ref_=ttrel_rel_4">Canada
</a></td>
<td align="right" class="release-date-item__date">11 December 2020</td
+>                        <td align="left" class="release-date-item__a
+ttributes">                            (internet)
</td>
                </tr>
                <tr class="ipl-zebra-list__item release-date-item">
                    <td class="release-date-item__country-name"><a hre
+f="/calendar/?region=us&amp;ref_=ttrel_rel_5">USA
</a></td>
<td align="right" class="release-date-item__date">11 December 2020</td
+>                        <td class="release-date-item__attributes--em
+pty"></td>
                </tr>
                <tr class="ipl-zebra-list__item release-date-item">
                    <td class="release-date-item__country-name"><a hre
+f="/calendar/?region=nl&amp;ref_=ttrel_rel_6">Netherlands
</a></td>
<td align="right" class="release-date-item__date">7 January 2021</td> 
+                       <td class="release-date-item__attributes--empt
+y"></td>
                </tr>
    </table>

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