2xlp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to parse a document and rewrite certain tags
for example the document has stuff like this in it: 
 <img id="image-1" src="http://site.com/a.gif" />

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i know how to pull the text via a regex easily 
  my $regex= qr|<img id="image-(\d*) src="http://site.com/(\w*)" />

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however now i need to replace the node's contents with the output of a function ( which is based on the matches generated ).
can someone please point me in the right direction? this seems like it should be rather simple, but i've been working all weekend and am having trouble wrapping my head around this.

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Re: replace text with function ?
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 12, 2009 at 03:26 UTC

    You want to look at the /e modifier for s/// in perlretut and perlop.

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      A simple example: 
      s/(\d+)/ sprintf('%03d', $1) /eg;

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      that is it! thank you!
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Re: replace text with function ?
by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2009 at 13:18 UTC

    Note, however, that -- as originally posted --your regex does NOT match (has a typo?).

    #!/usr/bin/perl -lw
use strict;
# [id://735593]

my $string = '<img id="image-1" src="http://site.com/a.gif" />';
my $regex = qr|<img id="image-(\d)" src="http://site.com/(\w\.\w+)" />
+|;    # works
#                                                         ^^^^^^^     
+      < modified here
if ( $string =~ /$regex/ ) {
  print "\$regex matches: $1 and $2";
} else {
  print "No match in $regex";
}

my $OPregex= qr|<img id="image-(\d*) src="http://site.com/(\w*)" />|; 
+    # OP's with (added) terminating "|;"
if ( $string =~ /$OPregex/ ) {
  print "\$OPRegex matches: $1 and $2";
} else {
  print "no match in \$OPRegex";
}

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    Output:

    perl  F:\_wo\pl_test\735593.pl
$regex matches: 1 and a.gif
no match in $OPRegex

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      ha ha, yes! nice catch!

      that wasn't the real regex -- stuff is working PERFECTLY now.

      thanks to all!
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