Re: regex and HTML

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You can simplify your regexes a lot, by deleting all the HTML tags. Thereafter, you have to look at the structure of the remaining text and whitespace. You could try:

undef $/;
my $html = <DATA>;
$html =~ s/<.+?>//sg; #strips all HTML, in a quick'n'dirty way
$html =~ s/\s+/ /sg; #normalizes whitespace
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The final match is left as an exercise...

Jeroen
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Re: Re: regex and HTML by Beatnik (Parson) on Apr 09, 2001 at 20:14 UTC
PerlFAQ9 has a entry on Stripping HTML Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply]
Re: Re: regex and HTML by toadi (Chaplain) on Apr 09, 2001 at 23:49 UTC
lol, Got same idea as you. Just stripped the HTML. But your regex is prettier then mine so I won't post it :P -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right	[reply]

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