hi,
why doesn' t the regex work? 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use WWW::LEO;
use Data::Dumper;


open(INFO,   "<  /home/metalfan/todo/dictionaries/Vokabeln\ -\ absolut
+ion\ gap.html") || die("can't open datafile: $!");
my @file=<INFO>;

{
    my $result;
    for my $entry (@file)
    {

# file format:
#   <TR>
#       <TD WIDTH=10% HEIGHT=61 VALIGN=TOP>
#           <P ALIGN=LEFT>Wrought</P>
#       </TD>
#       <TD WIDTH=90%>
#           <P><BR>
#           </P>
#       </TD>
#   </TR>

        if ($entry =~ m/
                        <TR>
                            <TD\sWIDTH=\d{1,2}%\sHEIGHT=\d{1,3}\sVALIG
+N=TOP>
                                <P\sALIGN=LEFT>(.+)<\/P>
                            <\/TD>
                                <TD\sWIDTH=\d{1,2}%>
                                <P><BR>
                                <\/P>
                            <\/TD>
                        <\/TR>
                        /sx)

        {
            print "$1\n";
        }
    }
}

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