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Re^4: How do we remove specific HTML tag

by Fletch (Bishop)
on Nov 07, 2021 at 09:38 UTC ( [id://11138545]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: How do we remove specific HTML tag
in thread How do we remove specific HTML element

That's kind of the point. He might have matching cruft in a CDATA section, or (more likely) inside a comment because the web designer decided to move something around but left the old location in place for reference and never cleaned up afterwards. You've handed him a ticking bomb prossibly starting him off with a bad habit and sooner than later that's going to go boom.[1] You don't know what his actual data is so the best answer is the most generally correct one: don't try and wing it handling HTML with regexen, use a proper parser.

[1] – "No boom today. Boom Tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow."

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

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Re^5: How do we remove specific HTML tag
by Bod (Parson) on Nov 07, 2021 at 12:58 UTC
    No boom today. Boom Tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow

    As it is is 6th November, the Boom was yesterday here in the UK!

      "As it is is 6th November" You posted this on the 7th.

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