I seem to always be the one doing this, but here goes:

Why are you matching HTML with regexes? It's dangerous and fraught with peril, as well as being impossible to maintain or get right. Why not use something like, oh, HTML::Parser and have it deal with the problem of how to figure out what has way and you just ask it "Does tag ABC have attributes X, Y, and Z?"

Or ... attack the problem another way. Either these pages are static or they're not. If they are, then read them by hand. No matter how many you have, so long as they don't change, you'll finish, eventually. (A very large amount and q.v. solution #1.)

If they're generated in some fashion, then don't examine the output, examine the generator! A quick code review with a colleague and a whiteboard will quickly tell you if you're double-generating attributes. Now, if the code is dense and impenetrable, that's a good reason to rewrite it, and in the process guarantee that this issue is a non-starter.

Now, you might have issues with the idea of HTML being embedded in the code. Get it out and use templates. HTML doesn't belong in code, and vice-versa.

Of course, this entire discussion begs the question - why aren't you using CSS?

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In reply to Re: Operator for "these expressions, in any order" by dragonchild
in thread Operator for "these expressions, in any order" by jsalvata

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