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True. In order to prevent legal whitespace breaking the match there's still some work left undone around the = sign: 
/href\s*=\s*"mailto:([^"]*)"/

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Of course this will still fail by only making a partial match if the email value has a double-quote (unlikely).

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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

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    Are we there yet?

    cheers

    tachyon

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

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      I can see two improvements toward making it bulletproof:

      1. you never know when someone will use single quotes
      2. or linebreaks

      In this kind of golf the code tends to get longer 8^} 

      /href\s*=\s*["']mailto:([^"']*)["']/si

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      Someone should mention HTML::Parser.

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        Hmm, good additions. I'm trying to think of new additions 

        Thinking, please wait.......................................
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        Endless loop, I might have to go and read the tag specs!!

        BTW If you just say use HTML::Parser you would ruin all this fun so best we keep it a secret :-)

        cheers

        tachyon

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

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        Thank epoptai,
        but there no need to had more stuff :o)
        It's harder enough to match the two strings...
        I know exactly what I can find, in this case. NO simple quote, neither breakline... :o)

        I tried something with HTML::Parser, but I DEFINITLY don't undestand HOW IT WORKS... Neither examples in perldoc or examples found in PerlMonks enlight me.

        So maybe you can explain me...
        First I initialize a object, OK ! Then I have got 3 functions "start", "end" ... what's for ?
        What does the function $p->parse() ?
        How can I print parse result ?

        BobiOne The losted Man :-/

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