Hello,

Can someone help me out.

I have a page of HTML and I need to grab out certain bits of it. I can identify the bits I need by the format of the HTML because it is generated from a database.

My problem is that I need a regular expression which takes all occurances of the particular string and puts it in an array.

If there was only one occurance I wanted to catch I would use the following regular expression:

$line =~ m/<B><P ALIGN\=CENTER>(.+)<\/B><\/FONT>/g;
my $bit_i_want=$1;

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$1 holds the bit I want, but how can I get the regular expression to hold all occurances rather than just the first? I'm sure there is a clever regex way of doing this.

Thanks,
Tom

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