Hi Rob & Dani, Thanks for your help!!! I will try the suggestion you made Rob and as soon as I finish typing this, I'll try Dani's code. I had someone by the name of Chen Ken contact me off-list and provided me with the following regex that appeared to work. Please let me know what you think:
my( $title, $event) = $data_string =~ m|([^>]*)(?:</FONT></b>)([^\]]*)([^<]*)|;