Hmm... I don't have an answer for you, but out of curiosity -- would I be correct if I observed that it seemed like you were trying to parse up Bloomberg.com's Currency pages?

Or at least they look a lot like the pages I wrote for them. :)


Okay... I have something. I believe is is somewhat less cumbersome, but I do not have the time to Benchmark the difference. 

while ($string =~ s/<TR.+?([^\)>]+\))<.+?(\d+\.\d+)//s) {
    print "$1 -- $2 \n";
}

<TR    <--   locates the start of each row.
.+?    <--   will slurp up lots of chars, but not greedy
([^\)>]+\)) <-- will grab the currency name, $1
<.+?   <--   slurp more, not greedy
(\d+\.\d+)  <-- will grab the currency value, $2

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I hope this is some help.

Edit 2001-04-20 by tye

In reply to Re: simplifying an expression by Sifmole
in thread simplifying an expression by Anonymous Monk

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