I'm trying to work out a regexp which when given either: 
$in = '<td><img src="foo.jpg"><a href="index3.html">New index</a></td>
+';
or
$in = '<td><a href="index3.html">New index</a></td>';

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will give me the link data, regardless, and the image data, should there be one. I've tried various combinations after the initial my ($new,$hit) = ($in =~ m#(foo.jpg)?.*(<a href=.*</a>)#m); It looks simple enough, but has stumped a couple of my friends, too. I'm trying to do it in a single regexp - although the actual problem could check for the bits separately, it's got me stumped enough to want an answer, out of curiousity (and doing it in two bits makes the rest of the code more complicated) FWIW, the link data varies, the image data is static.

the hatter

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In reply to Regexp to extract HTML link data by hatter

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