Re^2: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

My problem with the first match is it matches too much...

original:
"<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no tabs here</p>"

result of first regex:
no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2
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What I want it to match is...

column 1[tab]column 2
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Since that is the set of para's with the string [tab].

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Re^3: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside. by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:20 UTC
My first shot was too fast, here's a working solution: `my $contents = "<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no t +abs here</p>"; if ($contents =~ m{(<p>[^<>]\[tab\][^<>]</p>)} ){ print "Matched '$1'\n;"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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