Hi Sigmund,

Parsing html is always a pain and if it's a moving target, like you explain, it's even harder.

I would recommend considering an html parser. I've been using HTML::Tokeparser::Simple lately. It is very easy to use and maintain. You could quickly adapt to any changes

Your impressive list of regexes may also be vulnerable to changes and I would find that much more difficult to maintain.

Also, some of your regexes are decoding html entities. I use the imaginatively named HTML::Entities to that.

Could you post a snippet of the html?

In reply to Re: Renaming html email dumps according to sender and date by wfsp
in thread Renaming html email dumps according to sender and date by Sigmund

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