I've used a stack to keep track of opening/closing li tags.
#!/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){ last if $t->is_end_tag('span'); } my ($match, @li_stack); while (my $t = $p->get_token){ if ($t->is_start_tag('li')){ push @li_stack, 'li'; } if ($t->is_end_tag('li')){ if (@li_stack){ pop @li_stack; } else{ last; } } $match .= $t->as_is; } print "$match\n"; __DATA__ <li><span class="title">Title</span><ul><li>one</li><li>two</li></ul> +MATCH HERE </li>
output:
<ul><li>one</li><li>two</li> MATCH HERE
update:
Added output.

uptdate 2
see ikegami's reply below.


In reply to Re^3: simple regex help by wfsp
in thread simple regex help by nmerriweather

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