Parsing HTML with regexes should be a last resort, IMHO. Use a parser instead. That's why it's called HTML parsing! Here is a demonstration using HTML::TokeParser::Simple and doc's data.
use strict; use warnings; use HTML::TokeParser::Simple; use Data::Dumper; my $parser = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(\*DATA); my (@img,@link,@a); while (my $token = $parser->get_token) { if ($token->is_start_tag('img')) { push @img, $token->return_attr->{src}; } elsif ($token->is_start_tag('link')) { push @link, $token->return_attr->{href}; } elsif ($token->is_start_tag('a')) { push @a, $token->return_attr->{href}; } } print Dumper \@img,\@link,\@a; __DATA__ <A href=normal.link2 class="foo" > <img src="img.link2" alt="foo"> <a class=foo href='normal.link4'> <img height=20 width=25 src=img.link3 > <IMG src='img.link4'> <link href="css.link1"> <a class=foo href="normal.link1"> <img src="img.link1"> <a href="normal.link3"> <a Href='normal.link5'>
It is not less code than doc's, but it is much more readable. You might want to throw in error checking for missing href and src attributes.

jeffa

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In reply to Re: Problem with parsing HTML with Regex's by jeffa
in thread Problem with parsing HTML with Regex's by OverlordQ

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