What I am doing is content migration from .htmls to .asps. Im only grabbing everything thats within the body tags and copying it over to the new asp in the same directory/folder. I also need to capture any of the meta information found in the meta tag. Like 
<meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="Sun, Sun Bank, Bank, banking>

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This content can sometimes be found on multiple lines. I am able to grab the content that is found on only one line by the following code 
#if the meta is only on one line
        if (/\<meta(.*)\>/i) {
         # grab the meta tag lines
         print OUTFILE $_ . "\n";
        }

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I am having trouble when I need to grab the content from multiple lines the code I am using to try and do this is 

        #grabbing and printing everything between the meta tags if it 
+is on multiple lines
        if (/<meta.*?>/i ... /.*?>/i){
         # this is a title line
          # extract the title
        
        
         $meta_temp = $_;
         $meta_temp =~ s/(.*?)\<meta\>(.*?)\>/$2/i;
         chomp($meta_temp);

         $meta = "$meta_temp" ;
        
         # Write the meta to the output file
         print OUTFILE $meta . "\n";
        }

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In reply to grabbing and printing text by Anonymous Monk

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