>Problem is, the data isn't on the same line, so a regular
>expression won't help me.

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I just want to check that we're not missing something fundamental here -- this sentence definitely implies that the original poster believes regexes are unable to match patters which cross a linebreak.

In case that truly was his or her belief -- they can. Specifically, the dot character in regexes matches everything except a linebreak, unless the /s modifier is used.

So to match this: 

<b>Title:
</b>
STRING_I_WANT<br>

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you can just use 
m#<b>Title:.*?</b>(.*?)<br>#s;

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right?
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In reply to Re: Help with getting everything from X until Y by Cody Pendant
in thread Help with getting everything from X until Y by Anonymous Monk

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