The following code gives me ALMOST what I want. I need the ID and then the name (between the > and <). I am not that familiar with regex, and got some help on this code here too. I am looking at the HTML::TokeParser right now, but it doesn't seem to be the ideal module for doing what I am doing. Any other module suggestions would be appreciated, but I also want to try and figure out how I can do this in regex.

Here is an example of the text I am combing through from the page:

<td colspan="6" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" class="SmallPrintBold"><a href="Plat
+formProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&jid=3X223CA2D129EF993166683A761A7X4D&z
+sortParams=true&productId=26636&productType=2&catalog=1&authorId=9364
+0&sectionId=0&platformId=1"  >inMeeting</a> </td>
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And here is my perl:

use LWP::Simple;
my %categories;
my $page = get('http://www.handango.com/PlatformTopSoftware.jsp?author
+Id=93640&zsortParams=true');
while ($page =~ /
                productId=(\d+)
                ([^<]*)
                <
                /xig)
{
        $categories{$1} = $2;
        print "[$1] and [$2]\n";
}
 
foreach my $idkey (keys %categories)
{
        print "$idkey,$categories{$idkey}\n";
}
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This is what I get with this code:

[25297] and [&productType=2&catalog=1&authorId=93640&sectionId=0&platf
+ormId=1"
>inChemLab]
[25297] and [">]
[26636] and [&productType=2&catalog=1&authorId=93640&sectionId=0&platf
+ormId=1"
>inMeeting]
[26636] and [">]
[26632] and [&productType=2&catalog=1&authorId=93640&sectionId=0&platf
+ormId=1"
>inTimeCard]
[26632] and [">]
[26641] and [&productType=2&catalog=1&authorId=93640&sectionId=0&platf
+ormId=1"
>inShop]
[26641] and [">]
26636,">
26632,">
26641,">
25297,">
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I would like to get just the ID and name, like:

26636,inMeeting
26641,inShop
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Michael Jensen
michael at inshift.com
http://www.inshift.com