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Re: regex question by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 01, 2002 at 03:32 UTC
`use HTML::Parser;` It handles maniacal markup you'll never think of in your homerolled regexen Update: ++mkmcconn suggested I add HTML::TokeParser to the recommendation, and I agree (I knew I was forgetting a good one) After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: regex question by krusty (Hermit) on Aug 01, 2002 at 03:15 UTC
`$body =~ s/<img src=(.*?)>/[image:<a href=$1>$1</a>]/gi;` [download] Sounds like this might be what you're looking for. Cheers, kln	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regex question by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 01, 2002 at 09:44 UTC
You already identified one of the problems (and solutions have been suggested for that), but let me point out that your regex won't work either if there's whitespace between "src" and "=". BTW, HTML doesn't have alt tags. HTML has alt attributes - which have been mandatory for IMG tags for quite some time. Abigail	[reply]
186663 by Samn (Monk) on Aug 01, 2002 at 02:50 UTC
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