If I understand what you're trying to do:

You want to strip out all the tags from the original data, but gether them all in a separate place? Okay, instead of doing nothing ("1"), gather the data. 

my @extragted_tags;
push @extracted_tags, $1 while s/$pattern/" " x length $1/ge;

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(Not tested, either!)

This puts the separate tags in separate elements of @extracted_tags. If you want them all together in a single string, try this. 

my $extracted_tags;
$extracted_tags .= $1 while s/$pattern/" " x length $1/ge;

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The better you manage to specify what you want to do, the easier it will be for you to do it.

In reply to Re^3: Stripping HTML tags efficiently by gaal
in thread Stripping HTML tags efficiently by agynr

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