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why does this snippet of perl not work? (note: it is at line # 68 in my tpl file.)

<iw_perl>
my $tableclass=iwpt_dcr_value "shortDescription.shortIntroduction");
$tableclass =~ s/tr><td>/tr><td width=\"20%\">/;
</iw_perl>

i am trying to replace the first occurance of each table data cell in a row with a width specification. perl seems to be objecting to the < & > signs. Even if i try "escaping" them, i still get the error.

i keep receiving this error:

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XML parse error:
not well-formed at line 68, column 43, byte 2544 at /iw/iw-home/iw-perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/XML/Parser.pm line 185
:/default/main/NewCoIntranet_Dev/WORKAREA/ljn6/templatedata/description/short_description/presentation/short_description.tpl