file looks like this
<html>
<head>
<title>****TITLE****</title>
<base href="http://south.com" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/css1.css" />
</head>
<body>
<table class="formatting">
<tbody>  
<tr>
    <td class="indexcell">
    </td>
        
    <td class="maincell" id="top">
<h1 class="mainheading">****TITLE****</h1>


****STUFF****

<hr />
<p class="mainfooter"><a href="http://south.com/home.html#top" target=
+"_top">south.com</a></p>
<p class="mainfooter">Revised:</p>
    </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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I want to separate the file into an array with the "****keywords****" as the break between elements how should i do this. So far this is what i did but it doesnt work why? 
open(TEMPLATE, "<template.html") || die $!;
my @xtemplate;
@xtemplate = <TEMPLATE>;
close (TEMPLATE);


my $xtemplate; 
$xtemplate = join("", @xtemplate);
my @template;
@template = $xtemplate =~ /^(.*?)\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}/s;
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}title\
+*{4}/s);
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}title\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}headings\*{4}
+/s);
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}headings\*{4}(.*?)/s);

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maybe i should use split or the $/ instead of regex??????

In reply to regex vs split by maddfisherman

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