Hi,

I'm trying to match the content between 2 tags, ref and /ref

Heres what I have so far:

    $message =~ s{\[ref\](.*)\[/ref\]}{add_sup_note2($1)}ge;

Here is some example content of $message:

<html><body bgcolor="#DDE8F4"><h3>Getting There</h3> <br> <br>testing <sup>[<a href="#ref-1">1</a>]</sup>&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>hhh</b><br></body></html>

If I do this with the content split up into multiple lines, it works fine - for example: 

    my $test = qq|==Getting There==

testing [ref]bla bla bla [[http://www.google.com]] <b> test </b> and [
+[http://www.google.com\|testing]] [/ref]   hhh

testing [ref]bla bla bla  an[/ref]   hhh
|;

  while  ($test =~ m%\[ref\](.*)\[/ref\]%gix) {
        print "FOO, $1 \n";
    }

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..but due to the fact ALL the content is on one line - my regex doesn't seem to work :/#

Any suggestions?

TIA

Andy

In reply to Regex to match between [ref] and [/ref] by ultranerds

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