Returning the correct IP address (92.224.8.117 in this case) from this piece of HTML is not impossible, and with enough effort, someone may be able to write a regexp that does the job for this special obfuscation. But with HTML::Parser, it is essentially a no-brainer requiring about 10 lines of code.
Sounds like a challenge....

I wrote this on my first try, and it seems to work: 

s{(?:<!(?:--[^-]*(?:-[^-]+)*--\s*)*>)|(?:</?\w[^"'>]*(?:(?:(?:"[^"]*")
+|(?:'[^']*'))[^"'>]*)*>)}{}g;
s{&#([0-9]+);}{chr $1}eg;

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Only two lines, and still a no-brainer. ;-)
The code above should remove all tags and comments, keep any < and > characters that aren't part of a tag, and translate any numeric entities. Things it won't do correctly: declared sections, and short tags. But most browsers won't deal with them correctly either. Oh, and the \w is a short cut, and not quite correct.

In reply to Re^3: Split/Match Question by JavaFan
in thread Split/Match Question by esmadmin

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