The actual application is this. I have created a webcrawler that is searching variose sites and retriving data (names prices etc) and storing them in a database. and I have another script that compares prices for similar items. Well whenever I get to the part of the script that downloads theses sites that actually downloads the actual product pages my code turns into something like this, 
$thisHash('price') = $1 if $pageContent =~ s/prices: \<table\>.+?\<\/t
+able\>//s
$thisHash('cas') = $1 if $pageContent =~ s/CAS: \<b\>\d+-\d{2}-\d+\<\/
+b\>//s

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etc etc etc.
I would like to do something alog the lines of: 
$pageContent =~ /(CAS: \<b>\d+-\d{2}-\d+\<\/b\>|).*?(prices: \<table\>
+.+?\<\/table\>|)/s

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and then assign the captured values to a hash in an elegant manner. Sorry I should have been much nore clear in the first place
-Herman

In reply to Re: Re: Oft encountered regex problem by GermanHerman
in thread Oft encountered regex problem by GermanHerman

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