Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ?

Nice regex but you don't need the trailing >. It adds nothing and will cause something that like mailto:foo@bar.com" > to fail. Either drop it or allow for 0 or more spaces with a \s*

(/href="mailto:([^"]*)">/     # may fail
(/href="mailto:([^"]*)"\s*>/  # allows legal spaces
(/href="mailto:([^"]*)"/      # best option, just match
                              # what we want

cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

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Re: Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ? by epoptai (Curate) on Jul 07, 2001 at 00:21 UTC
True. In order to prevent legal whitespace breaking the match there's still some work left undone around the = sign: `/href\s=\s"mailto:([^"]*)"/` [download] Of course this will still fail by only making a partial match if the email value has a double-quote (unlikely). -- Check out my Perlmonks Related Scripts like framechat, reputer, and xNN.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2001 at 00:49 UTC
And this can still fail because HREF and MAILTO: in caps are valid so we need a /i to make it case insensitive `/href\s=\s"mailto:([^"]*)"/i` [download] Are we there yet? cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ? by epoptai (Curate) on Jul 07, 2001 at 02:27 UTC
I can see two improvements toward making it bulletproof: you never know when someone will use single quotes or linebreaks In this kind of golf the code tends to get longer 8^} `/href\s=\s["']mailto:([^"']*)["']/si` [download] Someone should mention HTML::Parser. -- Check out my Perlmonks Related Scripts like framechat, reputer, and xNN.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2001 at 04:21 UTC
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ? by bobione (Pilgrim) on Jul 07, 2001 at 05:33 UTC
Re: Re: Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ? by bobione (Pilgrim) on Jul 07, 2001 at 02:07 UTC
All right guyz, but you forgot the second statement. This regex need to match : $_ = '<A class=Title>'; Your RE match only if there's an "href". BobiOne KenoBi ;)	[reply]