Hi Monks,

I've tried asking this before, but have yet to have a reply that works. Have read so much documentation on regular expressions now that I think I'm going crazy! Seems like a simple problem to solve to me, so I'll try and be as clear as possible. Here goes:

I have taken a webpage to a variable and I need to extract various paragraphs of text from it. I have a working line of code that extracts text from the following article:

A webpage.

===Comments===

This webpage contains information bla bla bla

=Section 2=

Some more text here.

===Comments===

Some other comments here.

=Another section=

=Aditional Notes=

More notes here.

The code that I currently have extracts all the info between "===Comments===" and "Section 2=", as so: 

if(Dumper($page) =~ /===Comments===(.*?)=Section 2=/s ) {  
            $lit_comments = $1; 
        }

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What I can't seem to do now is extract the next block of text below the second comments box between "===Comments===" and "=Another Section=", as the start tag is already found earlier in the article.

As a secondary point. I also need to extract all the text after the "=Aditional Notes=" section. The problem is I do not know what the end tag for this will be, as it will be the last word used here (i.e. the last character in the webpage).

I hope this is clear. Any help would be great. Cheers!

In reply to Extracting Text Using Regular Expressions Problem by danj35

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