ansh batra has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

my data is 

</div><div class='ClipPicture'><a href='http://www.laptop-keys.com/Key
+boardKeys/Cart/Acer/A_Series/A110/A8A'><img alt='Clip Style Pic' src=
+'http://www.laptop-keys.com/images/KeyboardImages/A8A.png' width='659
+' height='135'/></a></div><div class='RadioButtonContainerClipStyle'>

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this is one line of input
i want to get value of src attribute of img tag. i.e http://www.laptop-keys.com/images/KeyboardImages/A8A.png
my code 
if($line=~ /<img .* src=\'(.*?)\' .*\/><\/a>/) {
             print "got2\n";
              $kb_lay_img_url=$&;
         }

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please help

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Re: regular expression
by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Jan 07, 2013 at 09:38 UTC
    You almost have it right. If I change $kb_lay_img_url=$&; to $kb_lay_img_url=$1;, it works for me. (see: Special Variables)

    EDIT: Here, I've made this change (and added Anon's suggestion, which makes the regex safer/better):

    #!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

my $line =
"</div><div class='ClipPicture'><a href='http://www.laptop-keys.com/Ke
+yboardKeys/Cart/Acer/A_Series/A110/A8A'><img alt='Clip Style Pic' src
+='http://www.laptop-keys.com/images/KeyboardImages/A8A.png' width='65
+9' height='135'/></a></div><div class='RadioButtonContainerClipStyle'
+>";

if ($line=~ /<img .* src='([^']+)'.*\/><\/a>/) {
    print "got2\n";
    my $kb_lay_img_url = $1;
    say $kb_lay_img_url;
}

__END__
got2
http://www.laptop-keys.com/images/KeyboardImages/A8A.png

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      thanks. :)
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Re: regular expression
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 07, 2013 at 09:36 UTC
    Do not use regular expressions to parse HTML. Use a proper tool. For example, using XML::XSH2, you can load the whole file and find the src attribute easilly: 
    open :F html 1011981.html ;
echo //img[@alt="Clip Style Pic"]/@src ;

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Re: regular expression (blah blah blah)
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 07, 2013 at 09:07 UTC
     '([^']+)'
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      it is fetching the whole img tag
      i need only value of src attribute

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        Most likely what Anonymous Monk showed you was not supposed to be the complete regular expression but intended to be used for matching the src attribute only. You will have to apply that hint appropriately.

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        Did you try to understand my regex pattern? YAPE::Regex::Explain? Put it in your regex, match up the quotes, delete your stuff, use my stuff
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