You really should use an HTML parser to handle this job, but the following regular expression and substitution "trick" might just be robust enough to handle your data:

use strict; use warnings; my $data = do { local $/; <DATA> }; $data =~ s/ (<input.*?ng-model=") ([^[]+) (\[\d+\]") (.*?) / $1 . $2 . $3 . qq( label="@{[ (split '\.', $2)[-1] ]}") . $4 /exgs ; print $data; __DATA__ <input type="checkbox" ng-model="data.mydebts.loan[0]" <input type="checkbox" ng-model="foo.bar.baz.qux[2]" /> <input type="checkbox" ng-model="foo[300]" >

Results:

<input type="checkbox"
    ng-model="data.mydebts.loan[0]" label="loan"

<input type="checkbox"
    ng-model="foo.bar.baz.qux[2]" label="qux" />

<input type="checkbox"
    ng-model="foo[300]" label="foo" >

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to Re^3: Substituting with match containing newline and space characters by jeffa
in thread Substituting with match containing newline and space characters by MorayJ

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