Hello Everyone,
I am running this loop given below to find out any html tags(<>or </>) from an HTML document but the problem is that it is consuming lot of execution time. Can u plz suggest me any other way or alternative to sort out this problem.

P.S. The target_data is the data I m extracting from a file and it's size can be very large enough. 

$pattern='(\<[^\>]{1,300}\>)';
                while ($target_data=~m/$pattern/gi)
                  {
                             $m=$1;                                 
                        $space='';
                           $space=' ' x length($m);            
                           $target_data=~s/$pattern/$space/i;
                        print $m."\n";
                   }

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Janitored by davido: Added formatting and code tags to reflect the OP's input layout.
Retitled by davido per consideration.

In reply to Stripping HTML tags efficiently by agynr

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