Please don't try to use regular expressions to parse HTML. It will generally end in tears.

CPAN has a number of modules that you can use to parse HTML properly. In this case HTML::TreeBuilder looks like it might be your best bet.

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s/Treebuilder/TreeBuilder/ - dvergin 2003-01-02