I’m no that good with regexp so I really need the help of someone who is. I’m trying to write a parser to parse the shockwave-flash embedded video code from sites like Google video, Yahoo, Youtube, Bolt and others. It needs to be parsed into a query string which is passed to a script which opens the players in a separate window. An example of how it will work with some pre parsed query strings can be found here - http://gigginonline.com/playvids.html The receiving script also uses swfobject.js - the docs can be found here - http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ which gets by the activex warnings. The idea is that the parser can be added to the text parser of forums and blogs so users can add play lists. This is what I have so far. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
use STRICT;
print header();

# src='http://www.bolt.com/video/flv_player_branded.swf?contentId=1952
+754&contentType=2' # src from bolt code

my $text = qq([video](title)- BOLT CODE - (/title)<embed  loop='false'
+ quality='high' bgcolor='white' width='365' height='340' name='video_
+play_500' allowScriptAccess='sameDomain' type='application/x-shockwav
+e-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' />
+<br/><a href='http://www.bolt.com/'>Get video codes</a> at <a style='
+font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#0066CC' href='http
+://www.bolt.com'>Bolt</a>[/video]
[video](title)- YOUTUBE CODE - (/title)<object width="425" height="350
+"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/topeBoB-ApQ"></
+param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="htt
+p://www.youtube.com/v/topeBoB-ApQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flas
+h" wmode="transparent"  height="350" width="425"></embed></object>[/v
+ideo]
[video](title)- YAHOO CODE - (/title)<embed src='http://us.i1.yimg.com
+/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/player/media/swf/FLVVideoSolo.swf' flashvars='
+id=970784&emailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Futil%2Fmail%3Fei%3D
+UTF-8%26vid%3De2e02ad6d9d1646cfa12ec8f270ae1ad.970784%26cache%3D1&imU
+rl=http%25253A%25252F%25252Fvideo.yahoo.com%25252Fvideo%25252Fplay%25
+253F%252526ei%25253DUTF-8%252526vid%25253De2e02ad6d9d1646cfa12ec8f270
+ae1ad.970784%252526cache%25253D1&imTitle=Nobody%252527s%252BWatching%
+252BOK%252BGo&searchUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/search?p=&profil
+eUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/profile?yid=&creatorValue=bm9ib2R5c
+3dhdGNoaW5ndHY%3D&vid=e2e02ad6d9d1646cfa12ec8f270ae1ad.970784' type='
+application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='350'></embed>[/vid
+eo]);

while ($text =~ s{\[video\](.+?)\[\/video\]} {

($src,$fvars,$type,$width,$height) = ();

$vdata = $1;
$vdata =~ m!\(title\)(.+?)\(\/title\)!is;
$title = $1;
$vdata =~ s!("|'|#)!!isg;
$vdata =~ m!\<embed (.+?)(\>|\/\>)!is;
$video_data = $1;

$video_data =~ s!("|'|#)!!isg; #clean it up

if ($video_data =~ m|type=application\/x\-shockwave\-flash|i) {
$type = "ok";
$video_data =~ s|type=application\/x\-shockwave\-flash||ig; # remove t
+he Type
}

$video_data =~ m!width\s*=\s*([^ ]+)!i;
$width = "$1";

$video_data =~ m|height\s*=\s*([^ ]+)|i;
$height = "$1";

$video_data =~ m|src\s*=\s*([^ ]+)|ig;
$src = "$1";

print "this is width of $title - $width\n";
print "this is height of $title - $height\n";
print "this is src of $title - $src\n";


if ($type&&$src&&$width&&$height) {

$video_data =~ s/^\s+//; #remove leading spaces
$video_data =~ s/\s+$//; #remove trailing spaces
$video_data =~ s/\s+/ /g; #remove excess white spaces

if ($video_data =~ m|flashvars\s*=\s*([^ ]+)|ig) {  #match and save
$fvars = "$1";
$video_data =~ s|flashvars\s*=\s*([^ ]+)||ig;  #delete flashvars from 
+string
}

@values = split(' ',$video_data);
$querystring = join('&', @values);

if ($fvars) {
$querystring .= "&" . $fvars;
}

qq|<!--videocode-->QUERTSTRING,TITLE,WIDTH and HEIGHT - ($title) $quer
+ystring($title)(width - $width)(height - $height)(type - $type)(src -
+ $src)<--videocode-->|;
} else {
qq|<!--videocode-->PROBLEM WITH VIDEO CODE TITLED - $title<--videocode
+-->|;
}


}eisg) {}

print "This is the text output - $text";

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I’m having a few problems with this, the first is that my error checking doesn't work. I’ve left the SRC out of the Bolt code to show you what its doing, or not doing. Second thing is I need to clean up and combine some of the back referencing if possible. I’m also having a problem with the Google code but I need to get what I have working before I can work on that. Can someone please help. Thanks Bob

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