[RegEx]

What's the best perl regular expression to pick up pattern in following HTML element:

<title> my perl expression </title>

an expression generic enough to be used for similar structures in a title.

thanks
miket thanks very much; unfortunately, i tried that but didnt work, is space a problem????
no wait, the one i had was like this:

<title>
my perl expression
</title>
eric thanks a lot, in fact im telling a robot how to pick up pattern in text so do not need to print, should have specified that in my question. i also made an error, my text was like this:

<title>
my perl expression
</title>

i tried the .* or (.*) but didnt seem to work.
s/<title>(.*)<\/title>

aha, i forgot the back slash....

eric thanks so much.

[Eric M]

Here is a simple regex for extracting the title, which is what you asked for. If you are looking for something more flexible, let me know.

my $title = '<title> my perl expression </title>';
$title =~ s/<title>(.*)<\/title>/$1/s;
print $title;

prints: " my perl expression "

EDIT: added /s to handle the multi-line issue

EDIT-2:
my $title = qq~
<title>
my perl expression
</title>~;
$title =~ s/<title>(.*)<\/title>/$1/s;

You might want to trim out any leading/trailing spaces/line breaks/carriage returns, etc...depending on your needs