There are far better ways to achieve your goal than using regexen.

Parsing HTML is notoriously fraught with difficulties; the more so, when that HTML is not compliant with well-known standards (4.10 strict; 4.01 loose in particular) That means rolling your own flies in the face of the caution against re-inventing wheels.

To minimize you problems, take a look at the various modules built for the job. A search of CPAN (or ActiveState with ppm if you're on Windows and using AS's Perl) will present a wealth of well-tested and stable (reliable) options.

HTML::Parser, HTML::TableParser, and HTML::Extract are just a few of the many that may suit your needs.

In reply to Re^4: Question why this Regex isn't matching by ww
in thread Question why this Regex isn't matching by OfficeLinebacker

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