in reply to 'one-liner' help

Well, as you can see from the reponses so far (caveat: i could be corrected ...) that this kind of HTML parsing is tough when your tool is a regex. Why not use a parser instead? I know it's not what you want, but here is some code that uses HTML::TokeParser::Simple to extract just the 'Content' <div> section. Isn't that what you are really trying to do - extract that <div> and everything it contains?
use strict; use warnings; use HTML::TokeParser::Simple; my $parser = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new('file.html'); my $print = 0; # so we'll know when to start printing my $count = 0; # need a 'stack' to keep track of div tags while (my $token = $parser->get_token()) { if ($token->is_start_tag('div')) { $print = 1 if $token->return_attr()->{class} eq 'Content'; $count++; } print $token->as_is() if $print; if ($token->is_end_tag('div')) { $count--; last if $count == 0 and $print == 1; } }
If you want to use this to modify some HTML files, i am afraid that you will have to save copies instead of doing in-place editing. I recommend saving the new files in a seperate directory, then you can just move the lot up a level and clobber the originals. ;)

jeffa

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