Link script adjustment needed

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Re: Link script adjustment needed by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 26, 2002 at 20:33 UTC
You have several options. Forbid spaces. Forbid double quote marks. Remove the closing angle bracket in your regular expression. In the interests of efficiency and efficacy, merlyn has written link verifiers. See his homepage. You might also have better luck with a module such as HTML::Parser or HTML::TokeParser, which can provide the 'href' attribute of an 'a' tag. For reading this far, here's a regex I'd try for a quick and dirty solution: `$buf =~ /<a href="([^"])"/gis`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Link script adjustment needed by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2002 at 11:15 UTC
I tried `$buf =~ /<a href="([^"])"/gis` and it didnt print anything. I also cant seem to find the merlyn link verification script. I was hoping someone could help me modify what I have if that is possible? Thanks	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Link script adjustment needed by johanvdb (Beadle) on Feb 26, 2002 at 20:35 UTC
Hi, Have you tried the package HTML::LinkExtor yet? It is specially designed to extract links (href, src) etc ... from HTML pages. Just do a 'perldoc HTML::LinkExtor' to find a nice example on how to use it ... ;-) J.	[reply]