in reply to Multiple line regex match

The textbook answer will be "Don't use a Regex to parse HTML, use a parser!" (such as HTML::Parser, HTML::TokeParser).

If you're really bent on doing it the quick and dirty (and wrong) way, you might want to look at turning your .*'s into .*?, and read on up greediness in perlre to see why.

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Re^2: Multiple line regex match
by dogen (Acolyte) on Nov 29, 2004 at 15:33 UTC
    Thanks, the .*? worked, as follows (used with the s option ath the end of the regex): 
    my $order_reg = "<p>Transaction Number:<\/p>.*?<\/td>.*?<td .*?>(.*?)<
+\/td>";

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