See the link Markup in the Monastery given at the bottom of node editing page you used to enter your question text and you will see that <code>...</code> tags can be used to wrap code and other stuff you don't want interpreted as HTML text.

How about showing us 10 or so "lines" of real data and the code you have tried to far to solve the problem. See I know what I mean. Why don't you? for tips about how you should present that.

My first take is that you should be using something like HTML::TreeBuilder to wrangle the input data.

Premature optimization is the root of all job security

In reply to Re: question about lookaheads and threatexpert/html parsing by GrandFather
in thread question about lookaheads and threatexpert/html parsing by ejc1

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