does your data always look like pseudo-HTML? tagged? maybe you can have better results with HTML::TokeParser

here's some untested code:

my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new($html) || die "Can't tokenize: $!";
# get each <tag1> alone.
while (my $token = $p->get_tag('tag1')) {
    # store the original text
    $origtext = $token->[3];

    # get data between <MYTAG></MYTAG>
    my $myTag = $p->get_tag('MYTAG');
    my $text = $p->get_text('/MYTAG');
    
    if ($text ne '') {
        
        # tag is not empty.. so $origtext retains
        # the data we want..

        # ... do whatever with $origtext and move on
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Re: mutiple-line regexes? by Chady
in thread mutiple-line regexes? by jens

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