$foo =~ s|<\s*script[^>]*>.*?</script>||gis;

I don't understand the "\s*" at the start of the regex -- what's that doing there? Any amount of whitespace before the "script"? That would render the HTML invalid, surely?

I've never had any problems with 

$html =~ s/<script[^>]*>.*?<\/script>//sgi

[download]

so maybe there's something strange in your content?

Randomly, what if there was some weird custom tag like <scriptblock> in there? You might need a \b after "script" in that case.

(Searching for weird possibilities) What if you had  <script src="if-a->-b-script.js"> or something bizarre?

Show us a page on which it fails to perform correctly.
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In reply to Re: Stripping the contents of Javascript tags by Cody Pendant
in thread Stripping the contents of Javascript tags by Anonymous Monk

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