Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs

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Re: Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by diotalevi (Canon) on May 08, 2003 at 20:06 UTC
Two ideas: just snip them off with substr. `$_ = substr $_, 0, length() - 4 for @Old_URL`. Or use a a substitution: `s{<br>}{} for @Old_URL`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: (2) Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by Maclir (Curate) on May 09, 2003 at 19:47 UTC
And what if the html source changes to xhtml and the <br>'s become <br />?	[reply]
Re: (3) Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by diotalevi (Canon) on May 09, 2003 at 21:46 UTC
Then it breaks. I didn't even pretend that the regex as given would parse HTML. It just alters a string which happens to have some HTML of a known format in it.	[reply]
Re: Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by cfreak (Chaplain) on May 08, 2003 at 20:29 UTC
Depending on the size of you data (and if I understand what you are doing) it might be easier to use HTML::LinkExtor Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply]
Re: Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by svsingh (Priest) on May 08, 2003 at 21:00 UTC
Could we get a sample of the HTML you're parsing? I built my own $input string and ran it through your code. Everything came out fine. Thanks.	[reply]
Re: (2) Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2003 at 21:26 UTC
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Re^3: Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by tall_man (Parson) on May 08, 2003 at 22:52 UTC
The input you posted contains no `<br>` tags.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs by Llew_Llaw_Gyffes (Scribe) on May 09, 2003 at 00:30 UTC
Without knowing what precisely you're trying to do overall, there's a certain amount of guesswork involved. But, that said, could you not simply do this? `@Old_URL = grep /href=/i, split(/(<\|>\|\s)+/, $input);` [download] My recollection, which may be flawed, is that you cannot use classes such as \w and \s in an enumerated character class in a regex.	[reply] [d/l]