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This looks like a perfect opportunity to use XML::LibXML's HTML parsing mode to scrape the page. There's a very short snippet sample at Get O'Reilly's top 25 into Template Toolkit, and I have a column on that as well.

Parsing HTML with regular expressions can be messy, since proper regexs that don't match angle brackets in the wrong places are hard to write.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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