Re^2: html parsing

"You could get the contents of the <title> tag just using a regular expression"

Solutions that use regular expressions to parse HTML will never be voted higher than those that actually use a parser. Also your assignment is very low value because it explicitly uses $1 when you could have instead captured the value directly (and safer too).

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Re^3: html parsing by shmem (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2017 at 15:40 UTC
I'd downvote my answer, if I could, not only for the shameless plug. Also your assignment is very low value because it explicitly uses $1 when you could have instead captured the value directly (and safer too). Providing code for that end might significantly improve this subthread. perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'	[reply]
Re^4: html parsing by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2017 at 15:51 UTC
I was hoping you would do that. :) `(my $title) = $res->content =~ m\|<title>([^<]+)</title>\|i;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]