Don't parse html with regexes. Seriously,

DO NOT PARSE HTML WITH REGEXES

Better men than us have tried that and failed. Use the right tool for the job:

use HTML::TagParser;

my $html = qq[
  <blockquote>
  <p><b>Joos van Cleve</b> - Lucretia (detail)</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>beautiful</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>indeed I am</p>
  <footer>
];

my $parser = HTML::TagParser->new( $html );
print $parser->getElementsByTagName( "footer" )->previousSibling->inne
+rText;
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Re^2: Matching regular expression over multiple lines by LanX (Saint) on Oct 15, 2017 at 11:52 UTC
It depends, I agree with arbitrary HTML. But sometimes with simple output generated automatically - like pdftohtml - regex is the right tool. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]
Re^2: Matching regular expression over multiple lines by Maire (Scribe) on Oct 16, 2017 at 05:53 UTC
Thank you for the code and the tip. I didn't know that there was an alternative to using a regex, so this was incredibly helpful, thanks!	[reply]
Re^2: Matching regular expression over multiple lines by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2017 at 23:41 UTC
Hi What you posted is the equivalent of using regex DO NOT PARSE HTML With low level parsers like HTML::TagParser Use a "DOM" like HTML::Tree / XML::Twig / XML::LibXML / Mojo::DOM...	[reply]
Re^3: Matching regular expression over multiple lines by LanX (Saint) on Oct 16, 2017 at 01:52 UTC
> with low level parsers like ... Please explain. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]