Hi,
You can of course take an HTML::Parser to do the work for you. This is the best way.
But if you really want your own regexp, I suggest to use 2 parsings, just to maintain readability. I am sure a real regexp expert can do it in one line, but here is my try.
$x="<html>/something/more words<br/></html>";
$x =~ m|<(\w+)>(.*)</\1>|g;
print "first is $1\n"; # You can put the <> around it here
$2 =~ m|(/\w+/)(.*)<br/>| ;
print "second is $1\n";
print "third is $2\n";
It is up to you to store then in arrays, but at least it gives you a hint.
This is really quick and dirty...
updateIt all depends on how much flexibity you want anyway, you can easily play around with the seperators, etc ...
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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium
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my $str ='<html>/something/more words<br/></html>';
my @bits = $str =~ m!(<html>)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)<br/>(</html>)!;
print $_,$/ for @bits;
Gives
<html>
something
more words
</html>
Of course, if what you've asked for is a simplification of your real requirements, then there are probably much better ways of doing what you really want, but you'd need to tell us what that is.
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could yo be more especific please?
You can do this:
$_=<DATA>;
chomp;
($htmlini, $something, $more, $htmlend)=
m|(<html>)(/.*?/)([^<]*).*(</html>)|i;
print join "\n", ($htmlini, $something, $more, $htmlend);
__DATA__
<html>/something/more words<br/></html>
but I'm afraid that we need some more information about the text yo need to match.
Ah!, you can also read perl documentation about regular expresions:
perldoc perlre
perldoc perlrequick
Hopes
perl -le '$_=$,=q,\,@4O,,s,^$,$\,,s,s,^,b9,s,$_^=q,$\^-]!,,print'
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