Re: Parsing and searching HTML code

Your strings should also be "quoted" by \Q...\E in case they contain any special characters: $html =~ m/(\Q$search_start\E.+\Q$search_end\E)/si;

I suggest using HTML::TreeBuilder and look_down method of HTML::Element.

Sorry if my advice was wrong.

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Re^2: Parsing and searching HTML code by Kenosis (Priest) on Jul 26, 2012 at 17:35 UTC
Good catch--thank you. Have updated the code.	[reply]
Re^2: Parsing and searching HTML code by jayto (Acolyte) on Jul 26, 2012 at 17:47 UTC
I thought that if strings are contained in variables then they don't need to quoted. Also one question Kenosis, in this statement /(\Q$search_start\E.?\Q$search_end\E)/s;, I realized that the ? after the . is important. What does it do?	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing and searching HTML code by Kenosis (Priest) on Jul 26, 2012 at 18:02 UTC
That prevents the regex from being greedy, else the match would end at the very last `$search_end`--way beyond what you wanted.	[reply] [d/l]