No, don't do that. It's too greedy: 
my $string = "<first><second>blahblah<third>\n";
$string =~ s/<(.*)>//g;
print $string;

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Result: (Hey, it's blank!)

If you really want to do it this way, use: $string =~ s/<[^>]*?>//g; The question mark keeps the asterisk from slurping up any character -- including angle brackets -- to the end of the line, and then backtracking to pick up that last angle bracket. Of course, so does the negated character class. Just be more specific.

In reply to RE: Re: Parsing/Extracting Data from HTML. by chromatic
in thread Parsing/Extracting Data from HTML. by Speedfreak

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