in reply to Reg Expressions

Is it something like this: 
$html = "<html><meta name=\"description\" content=\"sf\"></html>";
$html =~ /<meta.+?name\s*=\s*("|')description\1\.+?content\s*=\s*("|')
+(.*?)\2/;
print $3;

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