Re: Matching enclosed expression

While you will undoubtedly be reminded not to parse html with a regex... Here's something simple, and fragile :)


my $pattern = 'http://www.blah.com/cgi.pl?id=<blah>&blah';
my $matched =($pattern =~ /(\<\w+\>)/,$1);
print "$matched";
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<blah>
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Re: Re: Matching enclosed expression by shenme (Priest) on Sep 15, 2003 at 00:26 UTC
Well, they _did_ ask for "<idparm>", but maybe they'll say oops they meant "idparm" ? Let's throw 'em some additional pointers and say `m/<([^>]?)>/` will get what's inside the '<' '>' pair. And yes, the "use CGI; or die*" crew hasn't weighed in yet. (I'm a light-weight and don't count, but ... Hey, why aren't you using `CGI.pm`?)	[reply]
Re: Matching enclosed expression by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Sep 15, 2003 at 07:13 UTC
He was asking to parse a URL, so why would anyone remind him not to parse HTML with a regex? Abigail	[reply]