perlquestion
Willman023
I just wrote a short script to parse out <code></></code> and replace with </> in a DB(code below). But for some reason its not matching every symbol. For example, on the 12th line of a description I have:
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and for another I have:
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How can I match any <code><</code> and <code>></code>?
<br>Thanks!<p>
<code>
#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w
use Win32::ODBC;
use strict;
# MAKE CONNECTION AND QUERY ACCESS DATABASE
my $connstring = "EPI_DB";
my $db = new Win32::ODBC($connstring) or die $!;
$db->Sql("SELECT entry_id, description FROM entry");
my $description;
my $entry_id;
while ($db->FetchRow()) {
$description= $db->Data('description');
$entry_id = $db->Data('entry_id');
tagremover($description);
my $db2 = new Win32::ODBC($connstring) or die $!;
$db2->Sql("UPDATE entry SET description='$description' WHERE entry_id=$entry_id");
}
print "Cleaning Complete\n";
$db->Close();
# FUNCTION TO CLEAN TAGS FROM DATABASE
sub tagremover {
$_[0] =~ s/</</g; # REPLACES ALL HTML < SYMBOLS IN DB
$_[0] =~ s/>/>/g; # REPLACES ALL HTML > SYMBOLS IN DB
}
</code>
<i>bW</i>