in reply to Fetching meta tag info

How about: 
if($line =~ /<meta name=".*?author"\s+content="([^>]*)"/i)

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Neil Watson
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Re: Re: Fetching meta tag info
by rasta (Hermit) on Nov 12, 2002 at 15:37 UTC
    It it possible to have spaces besides equel sign, and quotes isn't mandatory in some cases. So, I suggest the following:
    if($line =~ /<meta name\s*=\s*"?.*?author"?\s+content\s*=\s*"?([^>"]*)
+"?/i)

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      Thanks!

      ? I am Lost on what the numberous question marks are doing in this req expression?
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        :-)
        A quote from the perlre man page:
          ? - Match 1 or 0 times
        PS. You are welcome :-)
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        :-) A quote from the perlre man page:

          ? - Match 1 or 0 times

        PS. You are welcome :-)
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