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Re: regex question by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 24, 2009 at 11:55 UTC
You could have looked up HOW to do this in less time than it took to post this question. For one option, http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=Tutorials#Web-Programming; for another, http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=Tutorials#Pattern-Matching-Regular-Expressions-and-Parsing. Also: `perldoc perlre` and `perldoc perlretut` Please, try a little self help, rather than inconveniencing the electrons and the Monks, and cluttering the Monastery with these "I didn't RTFM" nodes.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: regex question by matze77 (Friar) on Dec 24, 2009 at 15:08 UTC
I think regex are tough beans. But I agree that the OP could have tried first, and given some example code asked for help with his solution, rather than asking others for doing the work ... MH	[reply]
Re^3: regex question by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 24, 2009 at 17:11 UTC
"But I agree that the OP could have tried first, and given some example code asked for help with his solution, rather than asking others for doing the work ..." Are you familiar with any of their previous posts? Lower your expectations.	[reply]
Re^4: regex question by matze77 (Friar) on Dec 30, 2009 at 11:37 UTC
Re: regex question by JavaFan (Canon) on Dec 24, 2009 at 11:49 UTC
The easiest? How about: `m!\Qhttp://www.a_site.com/pubs.asp?ID=999582!` [download] but I bet that isn't really what you want.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regex question by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2009 at 11:50 UTC
<clue> regex href url site:perlmonks.org : Parsing HTML tags with regex, Extract and modify IMG SRC tags in an HTML document., How do I replace a URL with a clickable hyperlink?	[reply]
Re: regex question by gmargo (Hermit) on Dec 24, 2009 at 11:55 UTC
`my $str = qq(<div class="rightbox8"> <p style="text-align: center"><st +rong><a href="http://www.a_site.com/pubs.asp?ID=999582">Please click +here to view</a></strong></p>); if ($str =~ /href="([^"]+)"/) { print "href=$1\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regex question by spadacciniweb (Curate) on Dec 24, 2009 at 12:06 UTC
I suppose your href is always equal ('<a href="url"'). `$line = '<div class="rightbox8"> <p style="text-align: center"><strong +><a href="http://www.a_site.com/pubs.asp?ID=999582">Please click here + to view</a></strong></p>'; if ($line =~ /^.+<a href="(.+)".+/) { print $1; }` [download] Mariano (($_="Mzz ojjdloobnf jt uvy5502383")=~y~b-zg2-5c96-81~a-z0-9~s)=~s~~~s; print	[reply] [d/l]