in reply to Substitution Problem

The '.' metacharacter doesn't match newlines by default. You'll need to add the s pattern modifier to make it do that. You may want to add the i modifier as well to make it case-insensitive if you don't know that the HTML tags are all uppercase:

   s{<FORM(.*?)/FORM>}{replacement text}is;

[download]

It may also be worth noting that if the HTML is not well formed you could end up removing a heck of a lot more than you intended using this regexp

Update: Whoops. Quite right davido. I assumed that everything was in a single scalar variable. Additionally, for a quickie list of regexp modifiers you can go to perlreref.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Substitution Problem
by perldeveloper (Scribe) on Jul 10, 2004 at 15:54 UTC
[reply]

      Ummmmm... no... perlreref is the regex quick ref. If it were a typo then th link wouldn't have worked. ;)

      Update: Um... still no. perlreref (perl regex reference faq), perlre (perl regex faq) and perlref (perl references and nested datastructures faq) are quite distinct.

[reply]
        Actually, it might have worked even if mistyped, if it linked to another documentation page, like say perlref. Anyway, no harm done.
[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom