i want to parse a piece of html with WWW::Mechanize so i used $mech is a WWW::Mechanize object and i have like this piece of string that i want to catch and it seems all methods i tried with regex don't seem to work.

i will paste here the relevant piece of the html i want to parse,and i can say that there are no more pieces like this. 

      <div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1
+px solid black; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px;">
        Cristina&#39;s Stats
    <\/div>

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now im kind of suspicios on that &#39; that its messing stuff up,but im not sure. ok,we'll talk about this later.

the following is the code ive tried to make to match what we have above 

$_=qq/
      <div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1
+px solid black; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px;">
        Cristina&#39;s Stats
    <\/div>
/;

/>.(.*)s Stats.*<\/div>/s;
print $1;

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now what i am sure of is that it does skip over the endline and that it goes to take the name  Cristina wich is actually what i want the regex to match...well im pretty close to it .im not sure how does WWW::Mechanize come up with &#39; , is this represented as a character or just as a it is in the $mech->content ? (i didnt check that... :| )

hmmm , look how perlmonks displays it : '

the fact is that with the code above the regex works ok, but when faced with the real web content in $mech->content it doesnt work as expected,it doesnt match anything at all.

how can i fix this regex? or what other WWW::Mechanize methods/properties could help to solve the problem?

In reply to regex and WWW::Mechanize parsing a ->content of mechanize object by spx2

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