in reply to Re: REGEXP to match someting..
in thread REGEXP to match someting..

ok.. in my $con i have many <cite> </cite> and my regexp match from <cite> to another </cite> and i get html code. i need regexp to match from <cite> to next </cite> no another </cite>.

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Re^3: REGEXP to match someting..
by AR (Friar) on Dec 29, 2011 at 14:28 UTC

    If you assume your data is well-structured, you could make the * in .* lazy:

    while($con =~/<cite>(.*?)<\/cite>/g)

    I recommend against this because using regular expressions to parse a markup language is generally a bad idea. You're better off using a CPAN module to parse it for you.

      Nice.. thats what am looking for! very very thanks