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

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: 'one-liner' help by jeffa
in thread 'one-liner' help by buc99

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.