Hello, I am trying to write a code to obtain certain tables (both in text and html formats) from text documents. I am having trouble obtaining the data between the 'Table' tags. Here are key pieces of my current code: 

my $startstring='(<table)';
my $keywords='((Beneficially\s*Owned)|(Beneficial\s*Owners)|(Security\
+s*Ownership)|(more\s*than\s*5\spercent)|(more\s*than\s*5\%)|(more\s*t
+han\s*five\s*percent)|(All\s*Directors\s*and\s*Executive\s*Officers)|
+(Preferred\s*Stock))';
my $endstring='(\/table>)';

{
# this step removes the default end of line character (\n)
# so the the entire file can be read in at once.
local $/;
open (SLURP, "$direct$slash"."$file") or die "can't open $file: $!"; 
#read the contents into data
$data = <SLURP>;
}

@finds=$data=~m/$keywords\s*.{0,1500}\s*($startstring.*?$endstring)/gi
+sm;

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The issue is is that I am obtaining matches of $keywords, etc. I want to obtain just what is inside the parentheses of my regex above. Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

In reply to Matching Multiple Multiple-Line Regex by kbone

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