Re: help match this

/<a\s(.*)/s
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Honestly, you don't show where it should stop matching, so I can just grab the rest of the string.

I assume that actually, you want to match up to the next "<a", but that's just a guess. As there may not be a next anchor, the latter should be optional, thus, match up to the end of the string. So, try one of:

/<a\s((?:(?!<a\s).)*)/s
/<a\s(.*?)(?:<a\s|$)/s
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If your "html" is much more complex than this, you should look into using a HTML parser. I've used HTML::TokeParser::Simple with success in similar tasks in the past, so it's my first recommendation.

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Re^2: help match this by Silent-monk (Novice) on Jul 04, 2006 at 12:41 UTC
Hey there bart, Your first anwser is very close, but the question is how to extract contents between "<a" to "NGC:003288", not to the next "<a", so I would change your first anwser to this: `/<a\s(.*)NGC:003288/s;` [download] and it should turn up the desired result. Now, back to my meditation	[reply] [d/l]