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Check for whitespace perhaps? Do those tags perhaps span lines? Does $_ still contain what you expect it to contain? 

  $_ =~ s/<IT>\s*<\/IT>//gi;

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Update: Thanks you ysth for the correction.

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Re: Re: Regular Expression
by perlinit (Initiate) on Apr 19, 2004 at 19:41 UTC
    That worked. I tried everything but that. I didn't try that because the is not any whitespace there. Oh well. Thank You Phil
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