Re: How do I extract all text around a keyword between two symbols?

This works assuming you want quick and dirty rather than using the elegant reliable Parser solution.

$string =<<'TEXT';
<tr>1 The last company to fail was ISTF with losses of  $60M.</tr>
<tr>2 The last company to fail was ITF  with losses of  $60M.</tr>
<tr>3 The last company to fail wasISTF with losses of  $60M.</tr>
< tr>4 The last company to fail was ISTF 
with losses of  $60M.</tr >
TEXT

print "Found $1\n" while $string =~ m|<\s*tr\s*>([^<]*\bISTF\b[^<]*)<\
+s*/tr\s*>|gi;
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tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

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Re: Re: How do I extract all text around a keyword between two symbols? by Hofmator (Curate) on Aug 01, 2001 at 16:31 UTC
I'd say that's a little bit too quick and dirty, it breaks easily on sth like: `<tr>The <em>last</em> company to fail was ISTF.</tr>` Parsing HTML is tricky, that's what the parser modules (mentioned multiple times in this thread) are for. -- Hofmator	[reply] [d/l]