In that case, adding those attributes to the regex should do the trick. This is obviously untested.

get the.url.com/path |
perl -0777 -ne" print  m[(<table border=0 align=center>.*?</table>)]si
+" 
> file
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That is still a one-liner, but I split it across a few lines as the auto codewrap did horribly things to it.

That did the trick. Now if you'll indulge the following question, using the same example how would I change all the href and img src tags to add http://www.thesite.com. An example would be href="/my.gif" becoming become href="http://www.thesite.com/my.gif".

Assuming that you mean only in the extracted snippet, and not in the rest of the original document, then I might do something like this:

#! perl -slw
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

$_ = get( 'http://the.site.com/path' );
if( m[(<table.*?</table>)]si ) {

     ($_ = $1) =~ s[(href|src)\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"] #"
            [$1="http://the.site.com$2"]sig;
     print;
     exit;
}
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Throw that in a script and redirect the ouput to your file.

But please note. This is fragile! Anything changes on the web page and you have to change the regex. Many types of change would not be accomadatable easily. Given the examples of doing it 'the right way' offered above, your probably better off using one of those as your starting point.

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