Hi,

It is generally not recommended to use regex matches to parse HTML files.

Instead as swkronenfeld pointed out its better to use the CPAN module HTML::Parser

Below is an example of its usage. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Modern::Perl;
use autodie;
use HTML::Parser ();

my $p = HTML::Parser->new(
        start_h => [\&start, 'tagname, attr'],
);

open my $fh, '<', shift;
$p->parse_file($fh);
$fh->close;

sub start {
        my ($tag_name, $attrs) = @_;
        return unless $tag_name eq 'div';
        say 'sample Text' if exists $attrs->{class} 
                and $attrs->{class} and $attrs->{class} =~ /^lastUnit.
+*/;
}

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-Kiel

In reply to Re: How to grab a portion of file with regex by kielstirling
in thread How to grab a portion of file with regex by romy_mathew

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