Re^2: Pattern Search on HTML source.

The problem is that is the tags has sometihing like:

my $output = "<!-- 1st table -->
What I want 1<!-- /1st table -->more stuff...<!-- 2st movie -->
What I want 2<!-- /2st movie -->...more stuff...<!-- 3st movie -->What
+ I want 3<!-- /3st movie -->...more stuff";
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Like a carriage return or something like that I can't get it to match.

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Re^3: Pattern Search on HTML source. by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 31, 2007 at 19:20 UTC
am: use the `download` download link beneath the code to capture it rather than copy-pasting... or remove the newlines from what you copy-pasted until you have the $output as a single line in your editor. and... updating the previous: I realized, belatedly, that you appear to want to capture the contents of all the tag pairs, rather than just the first. Sorry, the code I posted captures only the first and so far, I haven't worked out a simple (aka, "elegant") and understandable way to do them all with a regex. CF advise to use an html parser or (new suggestion) a module designed to deal with matching pairs. Perhaps wiser monks will offer more particular suggestions.	[reply]

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Re^3: Pattern Search on HTML source.
by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 31, 2007 at 19:20 UTC

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and... updating the previous: I realized, belatedly, that you appear to want to capture the contents of all the tag pairs, rather than just the first. Sorry, the code I posted captures only the first and so far, I haven't worked out a simple (aka, "elegant") and understandable way to do them all with a regex. CF advise to use an html parser or (new suggestion) a module designed to deal with matching pairs. Perhaps wiser monks will offer more particular suggestions.

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