Firstly, the reason I'm looping through it is that this is test code to work out a rule for a certain page layout.

I'm writing a program to pull headlines from non-RSS newspapers so I'm looking *only* for the headlines. What I have found is that there is some kind of designation, be it graphic or comment, in the HTML code that I can look for and then start my headline link search after that.

As this is test code, I saved a copy of the html as a text file and was reading it in to an array, then parsing from there.

As for the parser, I'll give it a shot, but from what your output looks like I'd still have to search for all the href links as it's pulling all the <tag> stuff out. That's not what I'm after. I just want the href links and the text between them. That's why I was using: 

m/(<a href[^>]*>)(.+</a>)/io;

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thereby giving me my link, the text between and the closing tag.

Then I am throwing $1 and $2 in to a hash table to eliminate duplicate headlines.

I will have a look at the parser though. It would be nice to make this easier. : )

What I'm really stumped about though is why the code I posted was concatenating the values on the matches. Unless my PC was seriously overheated and something was going wrong, I can't see why those wouldn't be unique matches every time as you're sending it different data to check.

Any ideas on that?

Update: After much thought I have figured out where my thinking went wrong with my original question.

When I was asking why m!(<a^>*])(.+?)!iog was not matching $3, 4, etc... with the global, but merely $1 and $2, it finally occured to me that all I'm *asking* it to match is $1 and $2.

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...

In reply to Re: (jeffa) Re: Problems splitting HTML in to hash table by Popcorn Dave
in thread Problems splitting HTML in to hash table by Popcorn Dave

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