Hi there!! I am having a little big problem here trying to match everything that is inside of the TABLE tag and substitute all it's content with nothing, the code that I am using seems to match only if the string had no new line, as soon as a new line is found the regular expression doesn't match any more, any help on how I could repair this error?
Here is the part of the text file I am trying to work with: 
          <tr>
          <td colspan=3>
                        <table border="0"  cellspacing="0" cellpadding
+="2" bgcolor="#ffffff">
                           <tr>
                            <td width="100%" align="left"><strong>
                              <a href='http://www.webtesting.com/cgi-b
+in/test.cgi>
                              <!--&user=default --><!--a href='test.pl
+?&user=default&theme=default' -->
                              <font  size="2"><small>Click here to mak
+e this your default!</small></font></a>
                            </strong></td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>
                        <form>
                            <input type="button" name="Submit" onClick
+="top.opener.location.reload(1); top.close()" value="GO!" style="font
+:9pt arial; background:silver"></p>
                      </form>
                        </td>
          </tr>
        </table>                
           </body>
          </html>

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So I am trying to find everything that is inside of the table tags ans get rid of it.
Here is the perl code 
open(FILE, "$text_file") || print "Can't open output file1: $text_file
+\n";
  
  while(<FILE>) {

      if ($_=~/<table>(.*)<\/table>/sg) {$_=~s/<table>(.*)<\/table>//s
+g;}
     $save=$save.$_;
     
  }
  

my $file2 = "search_test2.txt";
 open(DATA_OUT, ">$file2") || print "Can't open output file1: $file2\n
+";
    print DATA_OUT $save;
    close FILE;  
   print  $save;

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Thanks!!!

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