Hi Monks!

I have an html page and in it's source code I have some tags like

<!-- 1st table -->What I want 1<!-- /1st table -->more stuff...<!-- 2st movie -->What I want 2<!-- /2st movie -->...more stuff...<!-- 3st movie -->What I want 3<!-- /3st movie -->...more stuff
In the source code could be 1 or more than 10 tags, but my point is that I am trying to get only the content in the middle of these tags, using the code showing here, but can't get a match, any help on that?
Here is the code I am using to do the match:
#got the html page already and I saved as .txt
my $output_file = "/temp_my_news.txt";
open(OUTPUT, "$output_file") || print "There is no file here!";

while(<OUTPUT>) {
        if ($_=~/<!-- 1nd table -->(.*?)<!-- \/1nd table -->/g) {
    print  $1;
        }else{print "<br>Nothing Here!<br>";}
}

close OUTPUT;

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Thanks for the Help!!!!

In reply to Pattern Search on HTML source. by Anonymous Monk

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