Hi guys.

I recently redone the template of my web site and I have these hugs articles that have 30+ replacements I'd have to do to each of them. It'd take 10-15 hours to do it manually.

I want to write a small perl script to substitute this chunk of HTML 

              <blockquote>
                <DIV class=code_box>
                  <DIV class=code_box_header><font size="2" face="Verd
+ana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">code</font></DIV>
                  <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans
+-serif">all other text and stuff goes here</font></DIV>
              </blockquote>

[download]
With 
          <BLOCKQUOTE>
            <p class="style2">all other text and stuff goes here</p>
          </BLOCKQUOTE>

[download]
The thing is, I need to capture the stuff inside the 2nd font tag and apply the above blockquote and pclass to it.

I can open up my 300+ html files and slurp them up just fine but my regex skills aren't that good to match these multilines while capturing only the text/code in the second font tag (there will always be just 2 if it matches).

In reply to huge multiline regex by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.