The best solutions are those where you use someone else's code, exactly what repellent, gmargo and CountZero suggested in response to your previous query. This is specifically so you don't have to worry about variations and edge cases. For example, how do you know the html even conforms to the standard - browsers are notoriously forgiving of non-conformant hml. It's generally not a good idea to manually parse html or xml since regexes have a hard time with nested data structures. All of this is already handled in HTML::TokeParser::Simple (or any of probably a dozen other HTML parsers on CPAN).

If you are really motivated to use regular expressions, read perlretut and pay particular attention to non-greedy qualifiers.

In reply to Re: capturing between divs by kennethk
in thread capturing between divs by sv123

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