This should be a relatively simple question for the regex-minded. I have a lot of learning to do still. I have a document that I am parsing and I will have the people who write the documents put in a pseudo-XML tag if they want a blank page, like so:

<blank title="Title of My Page">
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However, right now it only works if there are no spaces in the attribute title's value. So, TitleofMyPage would work with the following code:

#text is put in an array called page_text
foreach my $new_line(@page_text) {
        #put each line into another array
        my @blankPages = ($new_line =~ m/<blank[^>]+?title\s*=\s*["']?
+([^'" >]+?)[ '"]?>/sig);

        foreach my $blankTitle(@blankPages) {
                print "$blankTitle is the title\n";
                #do some logic to add a blank page with that title
        }
}
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Of course I want it so I can put spaces in there. I was also wondering if it would be difficult to allow " and ' marks in there, because those throw it off too.
The last thing I couldn't figure out too was how to make an if statement that would fail if it did find that, because of course I don't want my text to include the xml tag. The following seems to not work, even when I try to take out the parentheses that grab the text I want (refer to the regex in code above):

if ($new_line =! m/sameregexasabove?/sig) {
       #don't write a new line with the xml tag, but any other text is
+ okay
}
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Your help would be much appreciated!

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