in reply to Re^2: Regular expression
in thread Regular expression

I presumed he meant the < and > characters when he mentioned "square brackets" - otherwise the example doesn't make much sense.

And considering the string starts with < and ends with >, the "between brackets" condition was ambigious. I just pointed out which meaning I was going to assume. It seems that is the same meaning as you assigned to it.

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Re^4: Regular expression
by sandy1028 (Sexton) on Jun 08, 2009 at 04:38 UTC 
    my $line = "<ci:Name> Lord: Of The $10Ring$s </ci:Name>";
my $words = '';
if ($line =~ m/<.*>(.*)<\/.*>/) {
  $words = $1;
}
print  $words;

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    How to match all the text outside the angle brackets. Here $10 and $s is not displayed on print. From the text "Lord: Of The $10Ring$s" I have to delete ':' and "$". Please help me to proceed. Thanks
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