How do I extract text from an HTML page?

jamiel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

imagine that I have a document named finalgrades.html located at http://somedomain.com/finalgrades.html and it contains the following text:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<b>Guy 1</b>, grade: 100<br>
<b>Guy 2</b>, grade: 70<br>
<b>Guy 3</b>, grade: 98<br>
</body>
</html>
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I want a perl script ( to make a CGI ) which takes the values after "grade:" and before "<b>" for the line containing a name that I coose (for example "Guy 1"), and prints it to the screen when running it as a CGI on my webpage, something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PARTICIPANT Guy 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Guy 1</h1> Has just got a "100" as a 
grade for this Seminar. Congratulations!!!<br>
</body>
</html>
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edited: Sun Aug 3 15:19:23 2003 by jeffa - formatting, linkafied link edited: Mon Mar 13 10:25:23 2006 by jamiel - formatting, spelling, etc...

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