$html =~ s//\n\n\n\n\n\n/g; my (@lines) = split("\n\n\n\n\n", $html); $cn = scalar(@lines); for($i = 0; $i<$cn; $i++) { if ($lines[$i] =~ m/(.*?)<\/str>/) { $docuid[$i] = $1; } } my $max = max @docuid;