I'm trying to parse an HTML file and it's driving me crazy. In one page there are six blocks that follow this format.

<p..><some more tags> --- TITLE --- WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS<BR>
<object...><a lot more tags></object>
</p>

WORDS section runs onto multiple lines. The code within the object tags run multiple lines as well. I'd like to grab the title, words, and object code of each instance on a page. The html is being stored in a scalar.

# This correctly gets all of the titles
@titles = $page =~ /--- (.*) ---/gi;


# This only grabs the last set of WORDS
@words = $page =~ /--- .* --- (.+)<BR>/gis;


# This grabs everything after the first <object and doesn't stop at the close object tag
@objects= $page =~ /(<object.*>.*<\/object>)/gis;

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the /s modifier. I read that /s ignores newlines and without them, i get nothing. However i'm still clearly doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Trying to parse html file by annunaki10

Title:
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