Personally I would use HTML::TableExtract which is a subclass of HTML::Parser for everything. If you want a fragile regex solution you could do (assuming html page is in the scalar $html): 

my ($location)   = $html =~ m/Location:\s*([^<]+)/i;
my ($time)       = $html =~ m/Time:\s*([^<]+)/i;
my ($days)       = $html =~ m/Days:\s*([^<]+)/i;
my ($instructor) = $html =~ m/Instructor:\s*([^<]+)/i;

# if you want plain text you will need to do this
$location   = unescapeHTML($location);
$time       = unescapeHTML($time);
$day        = unescapeHTML($days);
$instructor = unescapeHTML($instructor);

# this unescapes common cases, not all possible cases. For perfection 
+-> CPAN
sub unescapeHTML {
    my( $unescape ) = @_;
  return undef unless defined($unescape);
    $unescape=~ s[&(.*?);]{
        local $_ = $1;
        /^amp$/i           ? '&' :
        /^quot$/i          ? '"' :
        /^gt$/i            ? '>' :
        /^lt$/i            ? '<' :
        /^nbsp/i           ? ' ' :
        /^#(\d+)$/         ? chr($1) :
        /^#x([0-9a-f]+)$/i ? chr(hex($1)) :
        $_
    }gex;
  return $unescape;
}

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If you use arrays rather than scalars for location et al and add a /g you will get all the locations on the page... 

my @location   = $html =~ m/Location:\s*([^<]+)/gi;
# first match will be in $loction[0] and last match (no suprisingly) i
+n $location[-1]

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Best way to search for specifics in a webpage? by tachyon
in thread Best way to search for specifics in a webpage? by Anonymous Monk

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