Greetings deprecated,

Well, this isn't the best or most compact regex in the world, but I've tested this, and it appears to work in the trials I've done. Give it a try. Someone with additional regex experience should be able to shorten my match string somewhat, I suspect.

use strict;
my $input = "<tr><td><b><a href=i386/zh-xcin-2.3.04.tgz-long.html>zh-x
+cin-2.3.04.tgz</a></b></td><td>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<i>chinese input utilit
+y for X</i></td><td>[ <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/p
+ackages/i386/zh-xcin-2.3.04.tgz>FTP Site 1</a> ]</td><td>[ <a href=ft
+p://ftp1.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/packages/i386/zh-xcin-2.3.04
+.tgz>FTP Site 2</a> ]</td></tr>";

my %data;
my @fields = split '<tr><td><b>', $input;
shift @fields;

foreach my $field (@fields) {
    ($data{fileurl}, $data{filename}, $data{description}, $data{ftp1},
+ $data{ftp2}) = 
        $field =~ 
        m#^<a href=(.*?)>(.*?)</a></b></td><td>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<i>(.*?)
+</i></td><td>\[ <a href=(.*?)>.*?</a> ]</td><td>\[ <a href=(.*?)>.*#;
    print "$2 == $3\n";
}
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Yeah, I know. It's a bit clunky. Given additional known constants for your specific situation, you may be able to streamline this a bit better than me. Anyway, good luck!

-Gryphon.