I have an HTML file that I want to search through looking for text inside tags of the form: 
<div><ul class="test">                 
  <li><a href="/www/?category=Earth">earth_text</a></li></div>

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where I want to find and print "earth_text". This I can do with a one liner: 
perl -lne 'BEGIN{undef $/} while (/<div><ul class="test">.*?<li><a hre
+f=\"\/www\/\?category=.*?\">(.*?)<\/a><\/li></div>/sg){print $1}' ind
+ex.html

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However the file also has cases where there are multiple entries; for example: 
<div><ul class="test">                 
  <li><a href="/www/?category=Earth">earth_text</a></li>
  <li><a href="/www/?category=Space">space_text</a></li></div>

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Is there a way to find one or multiple instances of <li>...</li>? That is, since they are associated with the same code block, I want perl to return $1="earth_text" and $2="space_text" in the above example and spit out the text like: 
print $1 . "; " . $2

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Ideally this should work for an arbitrary number of matches including 1.

In reply to searching for one or more instances of text between tags by kachunyu

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