Looks like I spoke too soon.

For anyone else attempting something similar, the above code had a flaw illustrated by the last line I added to the $doc test string below. The solution I came up with essentially amounts to using a more benign format for the temporary replacement string used to hide ASP code from HTML::Parser:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use HTML::PullParser;
use HTML::Entities;

my $doc = <<'EOF'; my %options = ();
<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc
<% abc ( '<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc <span> %\>', $abc ); %>
<input value="<%= $abc %>" abc />
EOF

$doc =~ s/<%(.*?)%>/
          my $content = $1;
          HTML::Entities::encode_entities ( $content );
          qq'[[asp_pp"$content"asp_pp]]'
         /gsex;

foreach ( qw{ text default } )
  { $options{$_} = "event, text, is_cdata"; }
my $p = HTML::PullParser->new ( doc => $doc, %options );

my $output = "";
while ( my $token = $p->get_token() )
{
  my $text = $token->[1];
  $text =~ s/(\[\[asp_pp"[^"]+"asp_pp\]\])|(abc)/$1?$1:"<b>$2<\/b>"/gs
+e
    if $token->[0] eq 'text' and ! $token->[2];
  $output .= $text;
}
$output =~ s/\[\[asp_pp"([^"]+)"asp_pp\]\]/
             "<%" . HTML::Entities::decode_entities ( $1 ) . "%>"/gse;
print $output;

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Output: 
<input value="abc" /> <b>abc</b> &nbsp; <b>abc</b>
<% abc ( '<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc <span> %>', $abc ); %>
<input value="<%= $abc %>" abc />

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Arnon Weinberg Back2Front - The Web Site People

In reply to Re^3: Parsing ASP files by thewebsi
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