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yaniv_av
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Nov 4, 2002, 2:33 PM

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And more regular expressions ...	Can't Post

let a string be:
"bla bla abc def bla bla abc ttt bla bla "

I want to create a new string containig all the data between to (include those tags) - and remove all the other characters.
In this case the new string should b:
$new=" abc def abc ttt "
How can I do it ?

Paul
Enthusiast

Nov 4, 2002, 2:47 PM

Post #2 of 2 (267 views)

Re: [yaniv_av] And more regular expressions ... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

my $string = "bla bla <b> abc def </b> bla bla <b> abc ttt </b> bla bla "; 
my $new_string; 
 
$new_string .= " $1 " while ($string =~ m|(<b>.*?</b>)|g);

Or you could just do:

Code

$string =~ s/>.*?</> </g;

(This post was edited by RedRum on Nov 4, 2002, 2:49 PM)

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