extract a substring between two emements

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Re: extract a substring between two emements by Anonymous Monk on Oct 10, 2011 at 07:04 UTC
site:perlmonks.org extract a substring between two elements site:perlmonks.org extract href site:perlmonks.org extract link extract string between 2 elements linkextor — extract particular links from HTML documents How to write CSS selector to extract more than one value from html source using scrappy module? Extracting full links from HTML Regexp to extract HTML link data More robust link finding than HTML::LinkExtor/HTML::Parser? App::scrape - simple HTML scraping, extract data from HTML by specifying CSS3 or XPath selectors.	[reply]
Re: extract a substring between two emements by exilepanda (Friar) on Oct 10, 2011 at 07:00 UTC
`$line =~ m/href="([^"]+.pdf)"/i;` Is that what you want ?	[reply] [d/l]
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Re: extract a substring between two emements by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2011 at 14:32 UTC
>perl -wMstrict -le "my $line = 'Hello hello START this is comment END ' . 'START this is still comment END ' . 'START this should still be comment END ' . 'this is fixed' ; ;; my $START = qr{ START \s* \K }xms; my $END = qr{ (?= \s* END) }xms; my $not_end = qr{ (?! $END) . }xms; ;; my ($extract) = $line =~ m{ $START $not_end* should $not_end* $END }xmsg; print qq{[[$line]]}; print qq{'$extract'}; " [[Hello hello START this is comment END START this is still comment END START this should still be comment END this is fixed]] 'this should still be comment' [download]	[reply] [d/l]