parsing html

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

Hi,

I am pretty new to perl and please forgive me if asking too obvious question.

The string i would like to parse has following structure

<td some text here> N </td>
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and i want to parse N using $line =~ /<td(.*?)>(.*?)<\/td>/ but unusually the string appears as

<td some text here> N 
</td>
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the code which i'm using would miss that N. any ways to play around with it? thanks in advance. shawn