Hello!

Not sure how to write the topic...

I have html page that contains a few occurrences of some text I need to record.

<START>TEXT1<END><br>
<various data><br>
<START>TEXT2<END><br>
<various data><br>
<START>TEXT3<END><br><br>

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etc etc.

And so I need TEXT1, TEXT2, TEXT3 etc, recorded in a file.

I first reformated the page content in ONE line by striping the carriage return. So I have one string now and want to extract substrings. Why did I do this? Because I imagine it will be easier to extract the substrings..

Then: 

open (FICH, "$file"); $all = <FICH>; close (FICH);
my $good = $1 if ($all =~ m/$start(.*?)$end/);

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This will give me the first TEXT ($good) occurrence. But how to get all the next ones?

Thanks!

PS. Each page contains up to 50 substrings I need to extract, and I will have a large quantity of pages, that I will process one by one. Substrings to be recorded like CSV, one substring by line, to be later exploited by an Excel sheet.

In reply to Search all occurences of text delimited by START and END in a string by natol44

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