in reply to Regex priorities.

Does this match your expectations? 

$s = '<COMMA>pre-stuff<EXHIBITING>some stuff</EXHIBITING>post-stuff</C
+OMMA>';;

print "$1 :: $2" while $s =~ s[<(\D+)>([^<]*?)</\1>][]gi;;
EXHIBITING :: some stuff
COMMA :: pre-stuffpost-stuff

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Of course, it fails horribly if your non-tag content contains '<':

$s = '<COMMA>pre-stuff<EXHIBITING>some <= stuff</EXHIBITING>post-stuff
+</COMMA>';;

print "$1 :: $2" while $s =~ s[<(\D+)>([^<]*?)</\1>][]gi;;
{zilch here}

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Re^2: Regex priorities.
by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on May 28, 2012 at 15:01 UTC

    Hi BrowserUk,

    Thanks for that. It worked perfectly. I decided to change "<" for "/" because I use it less, in fact I do use "<" for other reasons, but not "/", so I ended up with: 

    my $r =  q( <(\D+)>        # Opening tag <....> 
                ([^/]*?)        # stuff in the middle which does not h
+ave the closing tab character '/' 
                (<\/\1>)        # closing tag of same type as opening 
+tag </....>.
                );

while ($text =~ m/$r/gix){

... processing ...
}

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    Thanks for your help.

    Regards

    Steve

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