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in thread Regex problem while parsing tagged, hierarchical data

perl -pi -e '/(<level(1|2))(\sid=\".*\")*>/;$&?$2==1?$b=$3:$_=~s;($1);$1$b;g:1;' input

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Re^4: Regex problem while parsing tagged, hierarchical data
by Mago (Parson) on Sep 19, 2006 at 12:57 UTC
    Ups !! -1 char
    perl -pi -e '/(<level(1|2))(\sid=\".*\")*>/;$&?$2==1?$b=$3:$_=~s;($1); +$1$b;g:1' input


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      perl -pi -e '/(<level(1|2))( id=\".*\")*>/;$&?$2==1?$b=$3:$_=~s;($1);$1$b;g:1' input
        perl -pi -e '/1 id="(.*)"/?$ci=$1:s/2>/2 id="$ci">/g' input
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