I'd try something like HTML::LinkExtor to extract the links and then work on them using ordinary conditionals.

As far as matching strings that don't contain certain patterns, you have a number of options. Within a regex, (?!pattern) will match as long as pattern does not occur in the string. Or you could put the negation outside ($string !~ /pattern/).

For real robustness without tearing your hair out, though, I really do recommend moving your logic outside of the regular expression, and just do an explicit series of matches against the href contents.

HTH

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to (arturo) Re: matching the non-presence of a string by arturo
in thread matching the non-presence of a string by Joey The Saint

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