I am trying to do a screen scrape in perl and have it down to a array of table elements.the string:\[code\]<tr> <td>10:11:00</td> <td><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/page/controller/33">712</a></td> <td>Start</td> <td>Finish</td> <td>200</td> <td>44</td>\[/code\]Code:\[code\]if($item =~ /<td>(.*)?<\/td>/) { print "\t$item\n"; print "\t1: $1\n"; print "\t2: $2\n"; print "\t3: $3\n"; print "\t4: $4\n"; print "\t5: $5\n"; print "\t6: $6\n"; }\[/code\]output: \[code\]1: 10:11:002: 3: 4: 5: 6: \[/code\]I tried multiple thing but could not get the intended results. thoughts?