in reply to Strip HTML line breaks from list of URLs

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.

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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 />?
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      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.

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