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I am trying to write some code, and as a newbie, have some issues. I am trying to parse some HTML pages of some college athletic directories and get a list of all the coaches. I want to go through the page until i match a "section" regex, grab each row (tr) after, until i find another match for my section regex, then start again. I have figured out how to get the sport, and first coach under the heading, but cannot get where i can grab all the coaches under the heading until the next heading match. See my code below:

 
while ($content =~ m/<(td|th).*?<strong>(<.*?>)?(&nbsp;)?(?<sport>([(]
+?(Women('|&#39;)s|Men('|&#39;)s|W|M)?[)]?(\s|&nbsp;)?)?(Archery|Badmi
+nton|Baseball|Basketball|Bowling|Cross Country|Track (&|&amp;|[Aa]nd)
+ Field|Equestrian|Fencing|Field Hockey|Football|Golf|Gymnastics|Ice H
+ockey|Lacrosse|Rowing|Rifle|Rugby|Skiing|Soccer|Softball|Squash|Swimm
+ing ([Aa]nd |\s?[\/-]\s?|)Diving|Swimming|Diving|Synchronized Swim|Te
+am Handball|Handball|Tennis|Volleyball|Water Polo|Wrestling)(\s?[-,]\
+s?)?\s?[(]?(Women(('|&#39;)s)?|Men(('|&#39;)s)?|W|M)?[)]?):?(.*?)?<\/
+(strong|br)>/gi)
{
    print $+{sport} . "\r\n";
    
    if ($content =~ m/\G.*?<tr.*?>(.*?)<\/tr>/sgc)
    {
        my $coach_info = $1;
        while ($coach_info =~ m/<td.*?>(.*?)<\/td>/mg)
        {
            print $1 . "\r\n";
        }
        
    }


}
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Any ideas?

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