i'm trying to scrape everything within 2 tags on a web page , and failing miserably. 
<li><span class="title">Title</span> MATCH HERE </li>

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usually i just do a simple match like 
     <li><span class="[^"]+">[^<]+</span>([^<]+)</li>

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but i'm running into 2 problems:

a_ i can have html in the matched area, which screws up my ability to do a simple stop-match on the < . i've been failing with lookahead/lookbehind. i read the chapters in mastering regex several dozen times, and every time i think i understand these 2 beasts, I realize i dont.

b_ my plan-of-attack is screwed up when i encounter a nested <li>.*</li> tag. i'd like to not use an html tree module to handle this -- and keep it all in regex. is this possible?

In reply to simple regex help by nmerriweather

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Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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