Hi! Welcome back!

First, don't use regexen to parse HTML. There are many nodes here on PM that will tell you why that's a Bad Idea™.

Instead, use something like WWW::Mechanize find_all_links() or HTML::TreeBuilder look_down() to find your links.

Second, had you done Google's advanced search against PerlMonks for "html remove link", you'd have found helpful nodes such as these:

• Remove all html tag Except 'sup'
• Regex: Strip <script> tags?
• Simple link extraction tool
• Parsing HTML files to recover data...
• Simplify HTML programatically
• Parsing HTML tags with regex
• How do I remove a specific keyword from a HTML page
• Extract and modify IMG SRC tags in an HTML document.

IMHO, Re: Regex: Strip <script> tags? looks quite promising. ;-)

Good luck!