Im doing content migration (pushing the content of one set of web pages in .html format to another set of pages in .asp format) and while doing that I need to remove certain parts of the existing content. I need to remove the following chunk of code from each old page before moving the content to the new page. 
 <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#04047c"> 
          <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#
+04047c" width="116">
<!--#include virtual="/bus_nav_all_graphic.ssi"-->
          </table>
          
              <p>&nbsp; </p>
          </td>

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I tried doing a search on a row with a <td align=left ... bgcolor=#04047c... and ending it with </td>, but it doesnt want to work. Here is the code I used 
#grabbing and deleting the left nav
        if (/<td align="left valign="top" bgcolor="#04047c.*?>/i ... /
+<\/td.*?>/i){
        # this is the line that starts the left nav
         # extract everything between the open and close td and delete
+ it
        
        
         $leftnav_temp = $_;
         $leftnav_temp =~ s/(.*?)\<td align="left valign="top" bgcolor
+="#04047c\>(.*?)\<\/td\>/$2/i;
         chomp($leftnav_temp);

         $leftnav = "$leftnav_temp" ;
         $leftnav = "";
         # Write the title to the output file
         print OUTFILE $title . "\n";
        next
        }

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