Re: *fixed*Problem with <> and regex

If you really want to reduce:

<span class="author-name" itemprop="author">Romaxton</span>
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you could use something like this (untested):

s/<[^>]+(\w+)/$1/;
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Re^2: fixedProblem with <> and regex by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 11, 2014 at 22:54 UTC
That doesn't actually work: `c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le "my $s = '<span class=\"author-name\" itemprop=\"author\">Romaxton</sp +an>'; ;; $s =~ s/<[^>]+(\w+)/$1/; print qq{'$s'}; " 'r">Romaxton</span>'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: fixedProblem with <> and regex by Laurent_R (Canon) on Mar 12, 2014 at 18:43 UTC
Yes, you are right. I was not in a position to test when I posted and I missed parts of it. I was thinking about something like this (assuming the string is in $_): `s/<[^>]+>(\w+).*/$1/;` [download] which does work, but there are actually some easier ways, such as: `print $1 if />(\w+)</;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]