Hi, for many hours I'm trying to extract needed text from a html format (by LWP::UserAgent). I need those text which are not in html tags: '< >' brackets. I wrote many codes, it seems my regexp not so good :-), I'll be happy if we can solve it togather, tnx...

example of html text: <h1>Volume Leaders</h1></div><div class="yfitabs"><div id="yfitt" class="yfitt"><ul><li class="on"><a href="/actives?e=us"><em>US</em></a></li><li><a href="/actives?e=o"><em>NASDAQ</em></a></li><li><a href="/actives?e=aq"><em>AMEX</em></a></li><li><a href="/actives?e=nq"><em class="last">NYSE</em></a></li></ul></div><div id="yfitp" class="yfitabsc"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><thead><th class="first">Symbol</th><th class="second">Name</th><th>Last Trade</th><th>Change</th><th>Volume</th><th class="last">Related Info</th></thead><tbody><tr><td class="first"><b><a href="/q?s=BAC">BAC</a></b></td><td class="second name">Bank of America Corporation Com</td><td class="last_trade"><b><span id="yfs_l10_bac">8.06</span></b> <nobr><span id="yfs_t10_bac">Jul 3</span></nobr></td><td><span id="yfs_c10_bac"><img width="10" height="14" style="margin-right:-2px;" border="0" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/fi/03rd/up_g.gif" alt="Up"> <b style="color:#008800;">0.01</b></span> <span id="yfs_p20_bac"><b style="color:#008800;"> (0.12%)</b></span></td><td><span id="yfs_v00_bac">57,655,357</span></td><td class="last"><a href="/q/bc?s=BAC">Chart</a>, <a href="/q/pr?s=BAC">Profile</a>, <a href="/q?s=BAC">More</a></td></tr><tr><td class="first"><b><a href="/q?s=SIRI">SIRI</a></b></td><td class="second name">Sirius XM Radio Inc.</td><td class="last_trade"><b><span id="yfs_l10_siri">2.04</span></b> <nobr><span id="yfs_t10_siri">Jul 3</span></nobr></td><td><span id="yfs_c10_siri"><img width="10" height="14" style="margin-right:-2px;" border="0" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/fi/03rd/up_g.gif" alt="Up"> <b style="color:#008800;">0.06</b></span> <span id="yfs_p20_siri"><b style="color:#008800;"> (2.77%)</b></span></td><td><span id="yfs_v00_siri">53,607,894</span></td><td class="last"><a href="/q/bc?s=SIRI">Chart</a>, <a href="/q/pr?s=SIRI">Profile</a>, <a href="/q?s=SIRI">More</a></td></tr><tr><td class="first"><b><a href="/q?s=F">F</a></b></td><td class="second name">Ford Motor Company Common Stock</td><td class="last_trade"><b> EXAMPLE OF CODE: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET);

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

# Define user agent type
$ua->agent('MyApp/0.1 ');

# Request object
my $req = GET 'http://finance.yahoo.com/actives?e=us';

# Make the request
my $res = $ua->request($req);

#my @con = $res->content;
$res->content =~ /(<div class="yfitbg tbtabs">)(<h1>Volume Leaders.*)(
+Get a)/s;
my $cont = $2;
print $cont, "\n";


exit 0;

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