I'm new to perl (started today) and I need some help with a matching. I'm scraping a web page and I'm trying to extract some information between two tags but I keep getting more that I ask for. Here is what I'm working wiht:

 
......wrap><font face=arial size=-1>Volume<br>262,605,456</font></td><
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I need the number 262,605,456. I've tried this:

 
/.*Volume<br>(.*)<\/font><\/td>.*/
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But I get the whole page back. I've googled around and I think my problem has to do with nested tags and the "<" ">" symbols might mean something special but I can't figure it out. Thanks! Al