So here is my simplified code, and at the bottom is just a bit of the data in the $tagl scalar. 

my $tagl =  $resp->decoded_content;
if($tagl =~ /<div class=\"soda.*?>(.*?)<\/div>/ism)
{
  say "inside";
  my $grp = $1;
  say $grp;
}

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I know I get a match, because I do get the "inside" msg. But $1 is nothing. Am far from an expert in regex, but have used this before and I have no idea why I get the match, but not the group to extract. I made the pattern match in RegEx101.com, and in there it works. And yes, I know I will have to trim the extra whitespaces, but I can't even extract the group right now.

If anyone knows what I'm missing.....thank you in advance.

I post the data in a code format because it comes out cleaner here

 
                               </div>
                            </div>
                            <div id="taglines_content" class="header">
                                <div class="header">
                                    <div class="nav">
                                        <div class="desc">Showing all 
+3 taglines</div>
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="soda odd">
                                        Power. Grace. Wisdom. Wonder.
                                      </div>
                                <div class="soda even">
                                        Wonder. Power. Courage.
                                      </div>
                                <div class="soda odd">
                                        The future of justice begins w
+ith her
                                      </div>
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In reply to I match a pattern in regex, yet I don't get the group I wanted to extract for some reason by SergioQ

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