/<a\s(.*)/s

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Honestly, you don't show where it should stop matching, so I can just grab the rest of the string.

I assume that actually, you want to match up to the next "<a", but that's just a guess. As there may not be a next anchor, the latter should be optional, thus, match up to the end of the string. So, try one of: 

/<a\s((?:(?!<a\s).)*)/s
/<a\s(.*?)(?:<a\s|$)/s

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If your "html" is much more complex than this, you should look into using a HTML parser. I've used HTML::TokeParser::Simple with success in similar tasks in the past, so it's my first recommendation.

In reply to Re: help match this by bart
in thread help match this by Anonymous Monk

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