Aidan: Thanks for the reply, I'm currently trying the regex approach and ran into a little bump. The pattern for grabbing the link's text description... 
  m|<a href=(.*?)>(.*?)</a>|

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...will grab everything but "STF3A" and "STF1A". Given: 
Browse Tiger <a href="http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl?la
+t=36.12000
&lon=-95.94135&wid=0.75&ht=0.75&mlat=36.12000&mlon=-95.94135&msym=redp
+in&off=CIT
IES&mlabel=Tulsa+County,+OK">Map</a> of area.<br>

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$text will hold "Map" but when given: 
Lookup 1990 Census <a href=http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup/CMD=TA
+BLES/DB=C9
0STF1A/F0=FIPS.STATE/F1=FIPS.COUNTY90/F2=STUB.GEO/LEV=COUNTY90/SEL=40,
+143,Tulsa+
County>STF1A</a>

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$text is empty...I've tried tweaking the pattern but I'm even more of a newbie with regex than I am with perl, any suggestions?

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