Hey kids. Sucking some stuff out of an HTML file. It's not enough to warrant any module, as it's pretty clean stuff. However, there's one thing I want to do.

( $result = $htmlline ) =~ s/<tag marker>(.+?)</td>/$1/;

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This works, but every now and again $1 holds some br's (sorry --if I type it like a tag, it's interpretted as such). Sometimes zero, sometimes ten. I know I can add a line to it and easily take them out, but is there an easier 1-line solution? I've been doing Perl for over a year now... it's probably time I got a bit funkier w/ my regex's. I thought this would work, but didn't.

( ( $result = $htmlline ) =~ s/<tag marker>(.+?)</td>/$1/ ) =~ s/<br>/
+/g;

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...but says I can't substitute in a substitute.

In reply to regex help by GaijinPunch

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