Re: Regular Expression Help

When I fix the syntax errors (and write $string instead of string - always Use strict and warnings!), your second piece of code works for me, as in it prints "match". But you should not be Parsing HTML/XML with Regular Expressions! For one, the order of items in an HTML class attribute can change. Use something like Mojo::DOM, which supports selectors, instead.

use warnings;
use strict;
use Mojo::DOM;

my $html = <<'END_HTML';
<span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="
+33">a</span>
<span class="D(ix) Mb(-4px) Fz(36px) Fw(b) Trsdu(0.3s)" data-reactid="
+34">b</span>
<span class="Mb(-4px) Fz(36px) D(ib) Fw(b) Trsdu(0.3s)" data-reactid="
+35">c</span>
END_HTML

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new($html);
my $spans = $dom->find('span[class~="D(ib)"]')->each(
    sub { print "==> $_ <==\n" } );

__END__

==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-react
+id="33">a</span> <==
==> <span class="Mb(-4px) Fz(36px) D(ib) Fw(b) Trsdu(0.3s)" data-react
+id="35">c</span> <==
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Re^2: Regular Expression Help by vskatusa (Acolyte) on Apr 27, 2020 at 18:45 UTC
Hi haukex, thank you for your insights. I used the DOM and I get the following results for https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/XOM?p=XOM&.tsrc=fin-srch ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(b)" + data-reactid="14">43.88</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(500) Fz(14px) C($positiveColor)" data- +reactid="16">+0.15 (+0.34%)</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="68">43.73</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="73">43.59</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="78">43.79 x 900</span> <= += ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="83">43.80 x 900</span> <= += ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="96">19,803,615</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="101">38,560,761</span> <= += ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="109">185.631B</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="114">1.27</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="119">13.07</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="124">3.36</span> <== ==> <span class="Trsdu(0.3s) " data-reactid="143">47.13</span> <== [download] My questions: `sub { print "==> $_ <==\n" }` [download] How do I capture the $_ in a variable for example if I do this `sub {push @myArray, $_; }` [download] It fails! I am trying to understand how I can capture the output in your sub into an array.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Regular Expression Help by haukex (Archbishop) on Apr 27, 2020 at 20:31 UTC
`sub {push @myArray, $_; }` It fails! I am trying to understand how I can capture the output in your sub into an array. pushing the results onto an array works fine for me, so you'd have to show an SSCCE of how it's failing for you. However, note that you don't need to create a new array - the return value of the `->find` method is a Mojo::Collection object, which is basically just a fancy array reference. In other words, you can do `my $c = $dom->find(...)` and then `@$c` is the array of results - an array of Mojo::DOM objects. Just a guess, but perhaps you need to look at those docs to see what you can do with such objects, such as for example calling their `->all_text` method to get their contents. (You can use Perl's grep, map, and other array operations on `@$c`, or you can use Mojo::Collection's methods such as `$c->grep(...)` and `$c->map(...)`, which have a different API and return Mojo::Collection objects. `->each` is basically the object's version of Perl's `foreach`.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]