If your HTML is well-formed, you can use XML::LibXML:

#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

use XML::LibXML;

my $string = q~...~;
my $xml = 'XML::LibXML'->load_html(string => $string);
say for $xml->findnodes('//a');
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