in reply to Re^2: Regular Expressions
in thread Regular Expressions

I don't understand why this would grab more than what is wanted. It seems to me that the [^>]* will grab everything that isn't a '>', so it'll grab stuff until we finally get to the first instance of '>'. Even though it is greedy, I don't think it would grab past the '>' of the '<body ... >' tag. Care to expand?

$ perl -e 'my $str = "<body something=\"yep\"><a href=\"..\">"; $str = +~ s/<body[^>]*>/<body>/; print "$str\n"' <body><a href=".."> $

    -Bryan