Hi all,

I need one regular expression to match both texts. The text structure is similar, but sometimes I have a corrupted text I don't want to match.

The text1 has the <ul>*</ul> text I need to avoid. The regular expression I have only match the text1, not the text2. I've tried some variations with | without success.

Is it possible to do what I need in just one regular expression?

Note I'm retrieving the text using the $1 and $3. I have to retrieve text using the same variables (I cannot be able to use $1 and $3 for text1 and $1 and $2 for text2).

Any help will be appreciate.

my $text1 = qq{
<div id="aaaa">
    text tex text
<ul id="ccc">bla bla bla</ul>
    more text
</div>
};

my $text2 = qq{
<div id="aaaa">
    text text text

    more text
</div>
};

my $regex = '<div id="aaaa">(.*)<ul id="ccc">(.*)</ul>(.*)</div>';
if ( $text1 =~ /$regex/sg ) {
    warn "Text 1 found ".$1.$3;
}
if ( $text2 =~ /$regex/sg ) {
    warn "Text 2 found ".$1.$3;
}

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