Re: newbie to regex: all matches

Don't use regexen for parsing HTML - it leads to an unhappy life! Instead use modules like HTML::TreeBuilder. Look for the look_down method of element.

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Re^2: newbie to regex: all matches by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2006 at 00:36 UTC
I know all about using that module but I want to do it myself since I'll get experience using regexes in this way. It's not much of a script that will ever do anything, it's just for playing and testing. So if it doesn't always match id the page changes, it doesn't affect anything. I just want to learn how to match every occurence into an array. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: newbie to regex: all matches by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 10, 2006 at 01:03 UTC
`use warnings; use strict; my $str = do {local $/; <DATA>}; my @matches = $str =~ /(\w+):(.*)/g; print "@matches\n"; __DATA__ 1: one 2: two 3: three` [download] Prints: `1 one 2 two 3 three` [download] DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply] [d/l] [select]