This is the situation. I am writing a text based web-browser(don't ask why...call it practice...I want to get to know the Perl extension modules better...This uses LWP, HTTP, and HTML modules) and the way I deal with links calls for a substition regex. I'm using Oreilly's homepage for testing. In dealing with the links I do a substitution on the resource: 
while ( $src =~ m%<a href="([^"]+)"(?:.|\n)*?>([^>]+)</a>%g ) {
    $inf->{$i} = { 'url' => $1, 'res' => $2 };
    $s_text    = $2;
    $n_src  =~ s%$s_text%[$i $s_text]%;
    $i++;

}

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This is just a possible method to keeping track of the links. The problem is that one of the links in the source for the page has a '+' in it. I get a "nested *?+" error when I run the script because of it. I would just escape it in the regex but the value is held in a scalar. I tried to substitute all +'s with an escaped plus but that didn't work. It just substitutes with another '+'(the backslash apparently doesn't show in the string).

I'm out of ideas with this one. Any help would be great.

Amel - f.k.a. - kel

2001-03-04 Edit by Corion : Changed title

In reply to Regex to match 'A HREF=', quoting RE replacements (was: Regex Question) by dsb

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