Well, "$_" eq "<(.*)>" will only match if $_ equals that string, i.e. you're not doing a regexp match there. If you don't want to reinvent the wheel, take a look at HTML::Parser. If you do, and you're positive that each line contains exclusively a tag or line of text, you could do something like this to grab just the tags: 
use strict;
open FILE, "<temp.html";
my @tags = grep /^<.*>$/, <FILE>;
print @tags;

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If you actually want to separate into tags and text:
use strict;
open FILE, "<temp.html";
my (@tags, @text);
while (<FILE>) {
  chomp;
  if (/^<.*>$/) {
    push @tags, $_;
  } else {
    push @text, $_;
  }
}
print "Tags:\n", join "\n", @tags;
print "\nText:\n", join "\n", @text;

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In reply to Re: Search and replace everything except html tags by athomason
in thread Search and replace everything except html tags by thatguy

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