Hi, I hope that title was ok - not sure of correct terms to refer to this problem.
So I have a piece of code that is *supposed* to find links containing the phrase "email." and (ultimately with a separate s///) remove them.
Code: m/<a.+?href=['"].+?email\..*?\/a>/si
Unfortunately what that code does is match everything from the first "<a" tag through to the "</a>" after the "email.".
I'm still relatively new to perl and indeed regex. I've tried messing around with lookbehinds but I can't get my head round them properly, but I suspect they're key to what I need. Any ideas?
This is the data I'm working with: 
<a href="detail.jsp?key=7147&rc=d_20071128&p=2&pv=1">Next Page</a><br/
+>
<a class="foot" href="email.jsp?key=7147">E-mail Story</a>

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