Greetings, esteemed monks!

I have the following snippet of code where I am parsing some HTML to get a piece of text. I have split up the HTML into chunks and a typical chunk might look like 

/td><td class="stdViewCon">Moving Services for MSCD Student Success Bu
+ilding</td></tr></table></TD></TR>

<TR VALIGN=top><TD><table class="stdViewITbl"><tr><td class="stdViewLn
+kLbl">

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The part I want is "Moving Services for MSCD Student Success Building" or whatever text is in that TD. My code goes like this: 
        $pieces[4] =~ m/>(^<+)</;
        my $title = $1;

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where the $pieces variable holds that chunk.

First of all, why isn't this working?

Second of all, is there a better "Best Practices" way to do the RE match and store in $title?

Thanks!

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In reply to Question why this Regex isn't matching by OfficeLinebacker

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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