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in reply to to get next line of pattern matched

In a much as I will not recommend using regex to parse HTML doc., however, for this you could use Look-Around Assertions like so: 

use warnings;
use strict;

my $str = "<div class='PlayVideo'></div>
        A8A
        <div class='RadioButtonClipStyle'>";

if ( $str =~ m#(?<=</div>)(.+?)(?=<div.+?>)#s ) {
    print $1;  ## prints A8A
}

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Re^2: to get next line of pattern matched
by ansh batra (Friar) on Jan 07, 2013 at 11:00 UTC

    your solution is correct but the file i am parsing contains many div tag
    can you please provide the more specific solution

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      Since you're having so many problems achieving this with a regex, have you considered taking the previous advice of using a HTML Parser?

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        ill surely consider that advice but i am about to complete something and at this point i am trying not to add any module to this if this is achivable using regular expressions

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