in reply to Re^4: Removing the carriage return in a Find & Replace?
in thread Removing the carriage return in a Find & Replace?

Did you try Fletch's suggestion? On a Mac (which shouldn't matter much for this): 
-> cat junk.html 
_ABC_<TD>
<FONT FACE=arial SIZE=-1>_XYZ_
-> perl -00pe 's/<TD>\s*<FONT FACE=arial SIZE=-1>/widget/g' junk.html
_ABC_widget_XYZ_

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