Well, as you can see from the reponses so far (caveat: i
could be corrected ...) that this kind of HTML parsing is
tough when your tool is a regex. Why not use a parser
instead? I know it's not what you want, but here is some
code that uses
HTML::TokeParser::Simple to extract
just the 'Content'
<div> section. Isn't that
what you are really trying to do - extract that
<div> and everything it contains?
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
my $parser = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new('file.html');
my $print = 0; # so we'll know when to start printing
my $count = 0; # need a 'stack' to keep track of div tags
while (my $token = $parser->get_token()) {
if ($token->is_start_tag('div')) {
$print = 1 if $token->return_attr()->{class} eq 'Content';
$count++;
}
print $token->as_is() if $print;
if ($token->is_end_tag('div')) {
$count--;
last if $count == 0 and $print == 1;
}
}
If you want to use this to modify some HTML files, i am
afraid that you will have to save copies instead of doing
in-place editing. I recommend saving the new files in a
seperate directory, then you can just move the lot up a
level and clobber the originals. ;)
jeffa
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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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