Re: Working with source of returned web page

Is it that your web page has something like: <hr>34567<hr> and you want to extract the string 34567?

If so, this is just a simple regex match:

if ($response->content =~ m/<hr>(.*?)<hr>/) {
  $matched_number = $1;
} else {
  # didn't find a match
}
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If this isn't what you need, a concrete example of what you are looking for would help.

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Re^2: Working with source of returned web page by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on Jun 09, 2008 at 20:59 UTC
When using regexes to "parse" html it is often useful to use a negative character class instead of .? as all the RE engine has to do is grab stuff up to the next tag. This will of course choke if closing tags are muddled. `m/<tag>([^<])</tag>/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Working with source of returned web page by clone4 (Sexton) on Jun 09, 2008 at 20:07 UTC
Stupid me, just couldn't get it, it's exactly what I needed. Well big thanks and I'm gonna revise regex a lot more...	[reply]