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SaiyanM
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Jun 28, 2003, 1:13 PM

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Help with regex	Can't Post

Thanks in advance for any help...

If i have a string containing this data

Code

 $string = qq~header.tpl 
 <!-- BEGIN SUBBLOCK --> 
    I'm in subblock 
       <!-- BEGIN SUBBLOCK1 --> 
          I'm in subblock1 {{HEADER.SUBBLOCK.SUBBLOCK1.ID1}} {{HEADER.SUBBLOCK.SUBBLOCK1.ID2}} 
       <!-- END SUBBLOCK1 --> 
<!-- END subblock --> 
{{ID1}} {{ID2}}~;

how would i use regular expressions to match the text in between  and .

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Whats 2 + 2 x 2?
Its not 8...
(Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally)...

Paul
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Jun 28, 2003, 3:55 PM

Post #2 of 3 (6710 views)

Re: [SaiyanM] Help with regex [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

my ($wanted) = $string =~ m|<!-- BEGIN \w+ -->(.+?)<!-- BEGIN \w+ -->|s;

jryan
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Jul 13, 2003, 8:44 PM

Post #3 of 3 (6692 views)

Re: [Paul] Help with regex [In reply to]	Can't Post

That won't work quite right. You'll succeed too early on the inner end block. Try:

Code

$string =~ m|<!-- BEGIN (\w+) -->(.+?)<!-- BEGIN \1 -->|s; 
my $wanted = $2;

Although I highly dislike use of any permutation of .*?

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