Well, I've been able to slurp the files and read the data into arrays and it makes the coding much faster and easier. I no longer have to use anchor points and offset values and other messy stuff. I'm not getting the exact results I want yet but I'm getting there.

I have another question:

Is it possible to limit the scope of the regexp I'm using (ie. linit the search to an area I define by a regexp which defines the search block of text)? For example:

<p id=paragraph_1>
  <a href="http://www.link1.com">Link1</a> 
  <a href="http://www.link2.com">Link2</a> 
  <a href="http://www.link3.com">Link3</a> 
</p>
<p id=paragraph_2>
  <a href="http://www.link4.com">Link4</a> 
  <a href="http://www.link5.com">Link5</a> 
  <a href="http://www.link6.com">Link6</a> 
</p>

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If I use a regexp to parse the names of the above html links, I'm going to get all of them. What if I only want the ones within the paragraph_2 tags, how would I do that?

Here's an dummy example of code I already have:

local($/, *WEB_DATA);#sets $/ to undef for you
                      and when the scope exits
                      it will revert $/ back to
                      its previous value (most
                      likely "\n")
open (WEB_DATA, "<$myFilename.tmp");
  my $myData = <WEB_DATA>;
close (WEB_DATA);
my @linkName = $myData =~ m/regexp for linkName/g;

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I'm not sure if I've described it correctly, but what I want if to use a regexp like /<p id=paragraph_1>.+?<\/p>/ to define where I want to look, and another rexexp to define what data I want to parse within this block. I hope that makes sense.

In reply to Re^6: regexp over multiple lines by liverpaul
in thread regexp over multiple lines by liverpaul

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