I'm trying to search a user-given string in an html file that is enclosed in TR tags on multiple lines. Every entry that is searchable has its own set of TR tags. So here's a simplified sample file:
<TR>
<p> FOO BAR </p>
<a href=www.yahoo.com>yahoo</a> </TR>
This format follows throughout the file, and only the line that says FOO BAR is searchable, but I want to return that line and the line after (and hypothetically, the line after that, and after that and so on...) when a search is confirmed. Here's my problem: I can find the line with the "hit" just fine, but for the life of me, I can't make perl notice the </TR> tag. here's a sample of the code I am trying to make work: 
my $trString = "</TR>";
while ( <DATAFILE> )
{
	chomp;
	if ( /$content/ )
	{
		$searchString .= $_;
		until ( /$trString/ )
		{
			chomp;
			$searchString .= $_;
		}
		print "<TR>$searchString";
	}
}
I have tried numerous things, messing with flags, etc, and I couldn't get it to work.. can someone help? Worth noting: I'm a newbie at perl and have programmed in java/c/basic my entire life, so please be patient if this looks like garbage to you. Thanks!

In reply to File/String search... by Sharky_The_Dog

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