Hi luxlunae, The "<*" part of your regex means "match any number of less-than (<), including zero". So the whole thing will get rid of any number of "<" immediately followed by a single ">".

Closer (though still not correct) is: 

    $words =~ s/<.*>//g;

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which means "get rid of "<" and ">" and anything between. The reason it's still not correct is because it will delete multiple <...> ... <...> from the line, including the text within it. (try it and see). That is to say, it matches (and deletes) this entire line: 

    <span class="author-name" itemprop="author">Romaxton</span>

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A real solution would be: 

    $words =~ s/<[^>]+>//g;

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where the "[^>]+" part means "1 or more of any character except greater-than ">". That regex should therefore get rid of all occurrences of <...> in the line, without removing non-tag text in between.

Edit: it's worth pointing out another solution would be to use the "non-greedy" quantifier "?" in "still not correct" example I gave above: 

    $words =~ s/<.*?>//g;

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which would have the effect of matching the shortest possible "<...>" each time, and thus avoid getting multiple pairs.

Edit 2: fixed misspelling of "$word" to "$words".

say  substr+lc crypt(qw $i3 SI$),4,5

In reply to Re: Problem with <> and regex by golux
in thread *fixed*Problem with <> and regex by luxlunae

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