String Stripping?

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Hello all,
  
   I need to strip some HTML tags from a string....However, the complete tags are not 
consistent, so I would like to remove all the text between certain strings I 
specify.....regardless of what is between them!

   For example:
     I would like to remove all the text starting with "<table" and ending with ">"

    I only no how to remove exact matches....Does Perl have a function that can handle 
this?

Thanks in advance,
Kurt