If, and only if, your data contains only the meta tag, and you are not attempting to extract these from a larger set of html data, then this should work for you. 

$string ='<meta name="description" content="..."/>';
print $1 if $string =~ m[^<meta .*?name\s*=\s*"([^"]+)".*?/>$]i;

description

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It will only work if $string contains only meta tag and nothing else.

Next comes the question of how would you isolate the meta tag from a larger body of HTML. The answer is that you almost certainly would need to use one of the HTML::* modules, at which point, the above becomes redundant as they will allow you to get at the attributes of the meta tags (and every other tag) without needing a regex.

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In reply to Re: Reg Expressions by BrowserUk
in thread Reg Expressions by mikeblatter

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