I tried this on my own system (perl 5.6.0) and the script runs, however on our main server (Perl 5.004_04), it gives a syntax error on the substitution command and the following match line (though not the final match command (hunn?).
As an extra challenge, can you solve the problem for perl 5.004_04

Also, $rest contains the text after the elements in @list, not the subset that matches the contects of @list - which is the bit I'm after.

If it helps, I'm guarenteed that the segment I'm looking for is always at the start of the string 

:)

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In reply to Re: Re: getting the first n printable words from a string of HTML by kiz
in thread getting the first n printable words from a string of HTML by Anonymous Monk

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