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Since no one else has yet, I'll just chime in with the obligatory statement that people trying to parse arbitrary (HT|X|SG)ML with just a single regex are just asking for all the trouble they get. Try HTML::TreeBuilder or HTML::TokeParser.

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Re: Re: can't get $& to remove value in a substitution
by zusuki-san (Initiate) on Oct 25, 2002 at 09:38 UTC
    thanks roik for that snippet on escaping metacharacters. i'll give it a whirl.

    thanks fletch for that pointer also.
    i had heard that a custom library exists for parsing SGML-like text, but am still fairly new to the perl way, and thought i might get away with my approach :)
    also, i'm not dealing with plain html- i'm converting scripts with embedded html, so wasn't sure if those parsers would fit for that task.

    on a side note, i'm very impressed with the level of feedback and support from the monks
    big thanks
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