Re^2: Having a regex error

I did get it fixed, I forgot the .* (yes I feel stupid and it's been a while). I was told NOT to use regexes to parse HTML a number of times but I generally pull through it okay. No idea what the issue is this time around but it won't pull back any data between the two sections of code listed above. I even applied /gix and it still comes back empty.

I know some of the / were useless but I had to try to see if I could figure out what's wrong.. Anything in the code that might be the problem for not matching anything?

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Re^3: Having a regex error by japhy (Canon) on Oct 04, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
"I even applied /gix and it still comes back empty." That doesn't surprise me. Do you know what /g, /i and /x do? The /x is certainly going to stop your regex from working, since it ignores whitespace, which is a crucial part of your regex. I'm guessing the problem is that the text includes newlines in between the two tags you're matching between, and the `.` metacharacter does NOT match newlines UNLESS you add the /s modifier to the regex. Just tacking modifiers on all willy-nilly does not make a regex work. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Having a regex error by injunjoel (Priest) on Oct 04, 2005 at 17:12 UTC
Greetings again, One other thing to try is the use of the 's' => "single-line" vs. 'm' => "multi-line" switches at the end of your match, which basically deal with newlines differently. In short 's' treats newlines differently (so they get treated as if they are a part of '`.`') and 'm' does not. So you might want to try `m/\Q<td align="left" valign="bottom">\E(.*?)\Q<center><form action='gp +ost.phtml' method='post'>\E/s #Notice the 's' at the end here.` [download] Read more... (347 Bytes) -InjunJoel "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Having a regex error by japhy (Canon) on Oct 04, 2005 at 17:30 UTC
You're confused about /s and /m. The ONLY thing the /s modifier does is allow `.` to match newlines. The ONLY thing the /m modifier does is allow `^` to match after newlines and `$` to match before newlines. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Having a regex error by blazar (Canon) on Oct 04, 2005 at 17:10 UTC
I was told NOT to use regexes to parse HTML a number of times but I generally pull through it okay. Don't mind. Every now and again I do it myself... although I guess I should be supposed not to say so here!! So pssst... I know some of the / were useless but I had to try to see if I could figure out what's wrong.. Anything in the code that might be the problem for not matching anything? Hmmm... do you mean `\` (a.k.a. backslashes)? Anyway, no: at first sight I don't see anything wrong. But I'm tired, and I suppose that an HTML-extracting module would do better than me!	[reply] [d/l]