Based on your response I conclude that this snippet is inside a while loop. I also conclude that the <title> and <meta> tags are on seperate lines.

use strict;
my ($title,$meta) = ('','');
while (<DATA>) { ## <DATA> for test
    chomp;
    # ..
    if (/<title>/i) {
        $title = $_;        
        $title =~ s/<title>(.+?)<\/title>/$1/i;
    }

    if (/<meta/i) {
        $meta = $_;
        $meta =~ s/<meta .+? CONTENT="(.+?)">/$1/i;
    }
    #..
}

print "RESULT:\n$title\n$meta\n";

__DATA__
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/html4/strict.dtd">

<html><head>
<TITLE>untitled</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="An introduction to the basics of Per
+l scripting.">
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

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In reply to Re^3: Meta tag by nedals
in thread Meta tag by No-Lifer

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