Re: Perl HTML Form elements Filter

If you are just looking for every name=foo in the document you could use a regex like this (untested):

my @names;
while(<>){
 my $foo;
 while ($foo = /name=([^> ]*)/gi) {$foo =~ s/^"|"$//g; push @names, $f
+oo}
}
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However using regex's to parse html is NOT advised and it is much better to use a module such as HTML::Parser.

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Re: Re: Perl HTML Form elements Filter by davorg (Chancellor) on Nov 28, 2000 at 13:59 UTC
HTML::Parser is the best way to go for any kind of HTML extraction task, but there's often a subclass which is more useful for a particular task. In this case I think you'd be better off looking at HTML::TokeParser or HTML::TrreBuilder. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply]