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Re^2: html parsing

by Anonymous Monk
on Mar 22, 2017 at 15:25 UTC ( [id://1185468]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: html parsing
in thread html parsing

"You could get the contents of the <title> tag just using a regular expression"

Solutions that use regular expressions to parse HTML will never be voted higher than those that actually use a parser. Also your assignment is very low value because it explicitly uses $1 when you could have instead captured the value directly (and safer too).

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Re^3: html parsing
by shmem (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2017 at 15:40 UTC

    I'd downvote my answer, if I could, not only for the shameless plug.

    Also your assignment is very low value because it explicitly uses $1 when you could have instead captured the value directly (and safer too).

    Providing code for that end might significantly improve this subthread.

    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
[reply]
      I was hoping you would do that. :) 
      (my $title) = $res->content =~ m|<title>([^<]+)</title>|i;

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