Using Git for Windows, which includes Perl v5.24.1, I have successfully used this code to test that my match works for specific occurrences of this sequence of redundant html:

open $HTML, '+<', $libFile . '.html' or die 'Failed to open' . $libFil
+e . '.html';
    
    my $matchspotter = 0;
    my $remove = m/<div><div class="blue"><\/div><\/div>/;

    while ( my $line = <$HTML> ) {
        if( $line =~  m/<div><div class="blue"><\/div><\/div>/ ) {

             $matchspotter += 1;
        }
        #$line =~ s/$remove//;
        #print $HTML $line;
    }
    print $matchspotter;
    close $HTML or die  'Failed to close' . $libFile . '.html';

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The match stops working when the variable $remove is used in the if statement, but I only use the variable to illustrate my intent. The commented out lines are the bit I'm struggling with.

Searching has suggested this is silly to try without a cpan solution, but i would particularly like to try. (I've not yet used any modules, I would like to share with other Git users, and searching for the solution narrowed to a cpan module reduces useful hits.)

In reply to Strip specific html sequence by koober

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