in reply to Re^4: Help:getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables
in thread Help:getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables

You change the regex from 
    m|^ <([^>]+)> (.*) </\1> |x)

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to 
    m|^ \s* <([^>]+)> (.*) </\1> |x)

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The \s* matches zero or more spaces.

Cheers,
Tom

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