Hello *2, and welcome to the Monastery!

First, please note that the /g modifier on the first regex (the one in the if statement) does nothing, because the regex is called only once, in scalar context. If there were two or more <div id="724"> elements, only the first would be printed. You can fix this easily by changing the if into a while loop:

while ($t =~ /<div id="724">(.*?)<\/div>/sg)
{
    print "$_\n" for $1 =~ /<p>(.+?)<\/p>/g;
}

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However, as SuicideJunkie says, you’ll be much better off using a dedicated XML parser. But note that your XML is not well-formed, because the <meta charset="UTF-8"> tag has no corresponding closing tag. When this is fixed, parsing is straightforward:

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::LibXML;

my $t = <<'EOF';
...
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
...
EOF

my $dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => $t);

print $_->to_literal . "\n" for $dom->findnodes('//div[@id="724"]/p');

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Output:

 1:59 >perl 1798_SoPW.pl
aaa22
22
22
aaa22
aaa22
aafsdfsdfa22

 1:59 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: A line of code matches the question by Athanasius
in thread A line of code matches the question by *2

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