my $test = q{ <a 
href="detail.jsp?key=7147&rc=d_20071128&p=2&pv=1">Next 
Page</a><br/>
<a class="foot"
 href="email.jsp?key=7147">E-mail Story</a> };

print "BEFORE: $test\n\n";

$test =~ s{<a[^>]+>.*?e-?mail[^<]*</a>}{}gim;

print "AFTER: $test\n";

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That strips them outright, but probably you should not use it. It's naive and it will break (like most all regex-based markup parsing). What you want to do is either what erroneousBollock said, or I use XML::LibXML for XHTML. There are many other options in the X(HT)ML space. If you have dirtier HTML, those won't work. You can also do it in a stream with HTML::TokeParser.

In reply to Re: Regex to match first html tag previous to text by Your Mother
in thread Regex to match first html tag previous to text by Greebo

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