Re^2: Pattern matching and deriving the data between the "(double quotes) in HTML tag

Hi AnomalousMonk, Thanks for the comment. I understood that the problem was with the g - global modifier in the patters m//g. I achieved the desired output: 2016-09-30T00:00:00,2016-12-28T23:59:59 by using the below code.

#/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $timeLimit = '<timeLimit endTime="2016-12-28T23:59:59" startTime="2
+016-09-30T00:00:00"></timeLimit>';
$timeLimit =~ m/startTime="(.*?)"/g;
my $startTime = $1;
chomp($timeLimit);
my $endTime ='';
if ($timeLimit =~ m/endTime/)
{
        $timeLimit =~ m/endTime="(.*?)"/;
        $endTime = $1;
}
print "[$startTime],[$endTime]\n";
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Re^3: Pattern matching and deriving the data between the "(double quotes) in HTML tag by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 06, 2016 at 13:32 UTC
It's good that you've found a solution to your problem, but you should realize that the `/g` match modifier in the `$timeLimit =~ m/startTime="(.?)"/g;` statement does nothing more than pose a potential pitfall for future code, either in execution or development. Why leave it in? Also, please pay attention to other replies advocating an XML-parsing approach to what is essentially XML. And if you choose to stick with regexes, please consider kcott's wise advice here about using `([^"])` to capture the unescaped body of a double-quoted string. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Pattern matching and deriving the data between the "(double quotes) in HTML tag
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 06, 2016 at 13:32 UTC

It's good that you've found a solution to your problem, but you should realize that the /g match modifier in the
$timeLimit =~ m/startTime="(.*?)"/g;
statement does nothing more than pose a potential pitfall for future code, either in execution or development. Why leave it in?

Also, please pay attention to other replies advocating an XML-parsing approach to what is essentially XML.

And if you choose to stick with regexes, please consider kcott's wise advice here about using ([^"]*) to capture the unescaped body of a double-quoted string.

Give a man a fish: <%-{-{-{-<

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]