Grep and Extract Data in Perl

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Published on 2010-05-21T23:19:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 23:20 UTC
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I have HTML content stored in a variable. How do I extract data that is found between a set of common tags in the page? For example, I am interested in the data (represented by DATA kept between a set of tags which one line after the other:

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<td class="jumlah">*DATA*</td>
<td class="ud"><a href="">*DATA*</a></td>
...

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