Hello Holy Ones,
In reply to Ovid and Abigail's comments : the TokeParser module is a great idea, the problem is that my remit is to investigate how regexps can be applied to reformatting HTML pages. I have a regexp for a background colour attribute, though the '#' character treats all characters following as a comment! E.g. 
/background-color:\s*#([0-9a-fA-F]{6});*/ig

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To solve this problem, I've declared two scalars, $pattern1 and $pattern2, with different hexadecimal colour codes, e.g. 
my $pattern1 = 'background-color: #FAF519;';
my $pattern2 = 'background-color: #A7D6D5;';

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It's an (overly) simple solution, though I have not worked out how to escape the hash character yet! Any suggestions?

T

update (broquaint): fixed formatting

In reply to Regexp and HTML revisited... by Tricky
in thread Regexps to change HTML tags/attributes by Tricky

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