Would I be right in saying that you wish to match everything between a <td> and a matching </td>?

If that's the case:

 m/<td>(.*?)<\/td>/;
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Should do the trick.

(Note that the ? makes the .* non-greedy, which avoids slurping up too much if you have multiple <td></td> tags on the one line.)

Cheers,
Darren :)