Re: Non-greedy regex behaves greedily

The regular expression solutions will work in the simple cases presented here, but for advanced fixing of HTML tags you may want to look at Text::Balanced and HTML::Parser. For example:

use strict;
use Text::Balanced qw(extract_bracketed);
 
my $line = "<body label=\"<<HI>>\"><!--msnavigation-->";

# This will match the brackets properly.
my ($match, $remainder) = extract_bracketed($line,"<");
if ($match) {
   $match =~ s/body/body class=\"theBody\"/;
   print $match, $remainder,"\n";
}
 
# The regular expression will mess things up.
$line =~ s/<body.*?>/<body class="theBody">/is;
print $line,"\n";
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