I have a regex which is supposed to strip images out of HTML and replace them with
   [image]
and if there's an ALT attribute for an image, replace it with
   [image:"alt tag"]
my code is like this:
    $html =~ s/<IMG.*?ALT="(\[^"\]*)"\[^>\]*>/\[image: "$1"\]/sgi;
but it doesn't work when it encounters an image without an alt tag --- it matches forward until it comes across an image tag which *does* have one.
So instead of:
<IMG SRC="foo"><BR>
bar bar bar<BR>
<IMG SRC="foo" alt="bar">

[download]

becoming
[image]<BR>
bar bar bar<BR>
[image: "bar"]

[download]

it matches everything including the text and I just get
[image: "bar"]
I need the /sgi options at the end due to the variability of the HTML, but how do I rewrite the regex
to make the matching of the ALT tag optional?

In reply to Regex For HTML Image Tags? by hostile17

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