in reply to help needed with match multiple lines

Avoid greedy .* matches. Your regex will only find one match because of the .* matches.

However, a much better solution for parsing standard markup is to use the tools designed for the purpose. In this case one of the HTML modules, HTML::TreeBuilder perhaps, would be appropriate. Parsing markup reliably is hard and reinventing wheels generally takes much longer than one might expect.


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