In my simple site search script I posted recently I have three regexes working on the same lvalue to cut off the top and tail from some html and remove all the tags:

    $file =~ s/^.*$startstring/$startstring/s;
    $file =~ s/$endstring.*$//s;
    $file =~ s/<[^>]*>/ /g;
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I felt at the time this was a bit ugly, and should certainly have been doable in one regex, but didn't work out how - that's something I'd like to be able to do with a regex, though I agree it's not all that sophisticated.



§ George Sherston