Don't parse html with regexes. Seriously,

DO NOT PARSE HTML WITH REGEXES

Better men than us have tried that and failed. Use the right tool for the job: 
use HTML::TagParser;

my $html = qq[
  <blockquote>
  <p><b>Joos van Cleve</b> - Lucretia (detail)</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>beautiful</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>indeed I am</p>
  <footer>
];

my $parser = HTML::TagParser->new( $html );
print $parser->getElementsByTagName( "footer" )->previousSibling->inne
+rText;

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holli

You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.

In reply to Re: Matching regular expression over multiple lines by holli
in thread Matching regular expression over multiple lines by Maire

Title:
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