Thanks for the detailed reply :-)

Although I can follow what you are doing in your code example, I'm a bit confused about one thing. You seem to be processing the @data array line by line, whereas I'm reading my data into a single string variable (slurping, as recommended by the forum). Please correct me if I've misunderstood :-)

Where you have:

my @data =
    ('<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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I seem to have:

my $myData = <WEB_DATA>;

While googling, I came across the pos() function, which is used to find the offset or position of the last matched substring. Maybe this could help me when slurping files?

In reply to Re^8: regexp over multiple lines by liverpaul
in thread regexp over multiple lines by liverpaul

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