I had help creating a regex to get data out of some text documents (please don't comment about parsing html with regex - the resources aren't really html). The regex I have that works for 90% of the documents is:

($match{PAGE}, $match{DESC}) = $text =~ /\[Pages? ([\d-]+).*\n\n(.*?)\n\nAGENCY/s;

However, a few documents don't have an 'AGENCY' section. For instance <link>http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-02-03/html/2012-2363.htm</link> fails this regex match for this reason. What I want from this document is:

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer 
Continental Shelf (OCS) Offshore Virginia--Call for Information and 
Nominations

[download]

I can't depend on \\.*\\n+ - there isn't always a 'Docket' or other number above. I've tried:

/\[Pages? ([\d-]+).*\n\n(.*?)\n\n(?:AGENCY|ACTION)/s

/\[Pages? ([\d-]+).*\n\n(.*?)\n\n[A-Z]:/s

I've tried splitting this up into two regexes and so on. For more examples: <link>http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR</link>. Also, I'm not adverse to different ideas to get the data I want than searching for the section that comes after the paragraph that I'm interested in.

In reply to regex help by ag4ve

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