Re: Regex and a pseudo-XML tag

For robustness, you should probably look into Text::Balanced. For quick and dirty, which means putting more limits on what you will accept (no nesting or line breaks, for example), this might get you there:

m/<blank\s+title\s*=\s*(["'])?(.*?)$1\s*>/
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Update: As noted in the reply below, the $1 should be a \1.

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Re: Re: Regex and a pseudo-XML tag by graff (Chancellor) on Nov 21, 2003 at 03:28 UTC
In order use a captured string as part of a regex match, you need to use a backslash in front of the digit, not a dollar sign: `m/<blank\s+title\s=\s(["'])?(.?)\1\s>/ --` [download] To show a simpler example, consider: `$_ = "here are ::framed words:: to capture"; if ( /(::)(.*?)\1/ ) { print "text framed by $1 was <$2>\n"; }` [download] If you try it with $ instead of \, it doesn't work.	[reply] [d/l] [select]