I have been playing with the code from Pattern Matching Examples and I got this working
(My most Obfu line yet :} ). 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 
use strict;


#matches '>' then 0 or more spaces and then
#0 or more alphanumeric characters followed by '<' and 0 or more space
+s   


while(<>){
    print if m/>\s+\w*</|/>\w*</|/>\w*</s+//;
}

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Anyway, the idea is that if I can detect text and whitespace delimited by '><' then I could pick up just the text from an HTML table and lose the tags. So the script finds the pattern OK but it gives me the whole line in which the pattern occurs. How do I crop the data based on my delimeters '><' and return only what was between them?
TIA
jg

In reply to Cropping the output of the pattern matcher by jerrygarciuh

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