I see a few potential problems here.
  1. The regex you show won't work, because you didn't escape your / in </script>
  2. the dot (.) doesn't match _anything_, by default it doesn't match newlines. The /s modifier at the end of the regex changes that behavior to what you want. (see perlre)
So  s/<script>(.*?)<\/script>//sg; should do what you want. I can't speak to the validity of what you're trying to do, but that should make the perl work :)

Update: Paren typo corrected per fglock below. (Was (.*)?, which would be a greedy match, with the ? essentially pointless, acting on a * modified group) I left the parens in to show a capture, but fglock is completely correct that you don't need the parens.

In reply to Re: Regex help by swiftone
in thread Regex help by chuleto1

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