my $re = qr/<a[^>]*                   # an anchor tag
      href=                     # the Href in the anchor
      (["'])((?:(?!\1).)*)\1    # the value in the href
      [^>]*>                    # anything to the end of the anchor
      ([^<>]*)                    # Set brackets around it and get it as $2
      <\/a>                     # the end of the anchor
      (?:\s|<[^>]*>)+?          # I THINK you need the ? here, otherwise you would slurp everything up to the last date
      (\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})       # the 9 digit number
      /isxm ;