Hi Monks,

I'm really desperate with the task to remove a section from a given bunch of HTML-files. I never worked with additional modules in Perl, but I guess, this time I can't avoid it ;-)

What I want to achieve:
* Remove a section from a html-file, but only from the one that has only one dot in its filename (match on abc.html but not on abc.html_aaa.html, abc.html_bbb.html in the same folder)

* The section looks like this:

<div class="sectionHeading">REMOVE_THIS</div>
<div class="sectionContent">
<table class="sectionTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
+ title="Properties" summary="Properties">
<tr valign="top">
<th class="sectionTableHeading" scope="row" id="property_aaa bbb" abbr
+="aaa bbb">aaa bbb</th><td class="sectionTableCell" align="left" head
+ers="property_aaa bbb"><img width="20" height="15" alt="" title="" sr
+c="./../../images/indent.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<th class="sectionTableHeading" scope="row" id="property_ccc ddd" abbr
+="ccc ddd">ccc ddd</th><td class="sectionTableCell" align="left" head
+ers="property_ccc ddd"><img width="20" height="15" alt="" title="" sr
+c="./../../images/indent.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<th class="sectionTableHeading" scope="row" id="property_eee" abbr="ee
+e">eee</th><td class="sectionTableCell" align="left" headers="propert
+y_eee"><img width="20" height="15" alt="" title="" src="./../../image
+s/indent.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<th class="sectionTableHeading" scope="row" id="property_fff" abbr="ff
+f">fff</th><td class="sectionTableCell" align="left" headers="propert
+y_fff"><img width="20" height="15" alt="" title="" src="./../../image
+s/indent.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<th class="sectionTableHeading" scope="row" id="property_ggg" abbr="gg
+g">ggg</th><td class="sectionTableCell" align="left" headers="propert
+y_ggg"><img width="20" height="15" alt="Yes" title="Yes" src="./../..
+/images/true.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<th class="sectionTableHeading" scope="row" id="property_hhh" abbr="hh
+h">hhh</th><td class="sectionTableCell" align="left" headers="propert
+y_hhh"><img width="20" height="15" alt="" title="" src="./../../image
+s/indent.gif"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

[download]


* The section always starts with the two div-Containers, but the content in its inner table may vary (to be precise: only the referenced filenames './../../images/indent.gif' and './../../images/true.gif' vary).

I think, this section is too complicated to match with RegExp, do you agree?
Can I expect help from HTML::TokeParser or something similar?

Thanks for any helping hand :]
Cheers,
Xevven

In reply to Remove section from a HTML file by Xevven

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