You might be able to get away with using regular expressions, but a more robust solution would involve using HTML::Parser (alt.) or the kinder, gentler HTML::TokeParser (alt.).

Update: Searching for either module in Super Search should turn up lots of useful nodes, but this tutorial by crazyinsomniac might be a good place to start.

Update^2: I'm surprised Ovid didn't mention it himself, but crazyinsomniac kindly pointed out HTML::TokeParser::Easy ... like H::TP wasn't easy enough. ;^)

    --k.

excelent, thank you.
TokeParser will do everything I need.

Here's the shell of a script that uses HTML::TokeParser to print the data you are looking for.

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TokeParser;

my @sections = qw/ Poster Date /;

my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new( 'test.html' );

while ( my $token = $p->get_token ) {
    my ( $type, $text ) = @$token;
    if ( $type eq 'C' ) {
        # we have an HTML comment
        foreach my $section ( @sections ) {
            if (  $text =~ /$section/ ) {
                $p->get_tag( "b" );
                my $data = $p->get_trimmed_text;
                print "$data\n";
                last;
            }
        }
    }
}
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Cheers,
Ovid

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