hi nmerriweather,

i'd like to not use an html tree module to handle this -- and keep it all in regex. is this possible?
In a word yes. But, imo, very tricky.

You didn't say what exactly you're looking for. Perhaps some examples, including those nested <li>s?

It's very easy to "get at" all the html elements. I'd wager a solution could be found using something like the following. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;

my $html = do{local $/; <DATA>};

my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(\$html)
 or die "can't parse string: $!\n";

while (my $t = $p->get_token){
  printf "*%s*\n", $t->as_is;
}

__DATA__
<li><span class="title">Title</span> MATCH HERE </li>

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output: 
*<li>*
*<span class="title">*
*Title*
*</span>*
* MATCH HERE *
*</li>*
*
*

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In reply to Re: simple regex help by wfsp
in thread simple regex help by nmerriweather

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