Hi,

You can of course take an HTML::Parser to do the work for you. This is the best way.

But if you really want your own regexp, I suggest to use 2 parsings, just to maintain readability. I am sure a real regexp expert can do it in one line, but here is my try. 

$x="<html>/something/more words<br/></html>";
$x =~ m|<(\w+)>(.*)</\1>|g;
print "first is $1\n"; # You can put the <> around it here
$2 =~ m|(/\w+/)(.*)<br/>| ;
print "second is $1\n";
print "third is $2\n";

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It is up to you to store then in arrays, but at least it gives you a hint.

This is really quick and dirty...

updateIt all depends on how much flexibity you want anyway, you can easily play around with the seperators, etc ...
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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium

In reply to Re: Regular expressions by mce
in thread Regular expressions by Anonymous Monk

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