I have tried to find the answer looking in HTML::Parser or XML::Parser. But in those modules the core parser is made in C.

The "Cheap HTML parser by Jim Davis" doesn't care about the problem I try to solve:

If you have a file in an array, is easy to find the tag pattern:
 clear text<tag...> clear text

But it's not so easy to find:
clear text <tag var1=".." var2="..>.." > clear text

One way is test if you have odd numbers of ("), if true, you have to look for the next '>' to get the complete tag, but I don't know how to it right and fast.

So, the problem is how can I count the number of time a caracter appears in a string.

Thanks!
--Edu

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