ok. so no cpan modules seem to handle it outright.

it looks like i need to scrub text for tags in 1 pass, then come again and regex the flash

I'm a bit uneasy with perl and regexes (i know odd)... i've just grown custom to the python ones, where matches are objects that contain string position etc.

my    $regex= qr/
    <embed
        \s*
        (
            [^"]*="[^"]*"
            (:?\s)?
        )+
        \s*
    (\/)?\s*>/ixm;
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should match anything i toss at it.

but now i'm unsure.... how can i loop the text with that regex without doing an endless loop ( i'll be replacing in text that will pass that test , and i can't code around that )?