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exclude a string in pattern

amoskoh
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Apr 12, 2005, 10:42 AM

Post #1 of 2 (3334 views)

exclude a string in pattern	Can't Post

OK. here it goes

I havea String with HTML-like tags
ie,
<TIME> 11.00pm </TIME><ENAMEX> test </ENAMEX>

I want to clean that string by removing all things that come in between the < >
EXCEPT
<ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX etc etc... may be anything>
</ENAMEX>

And running that on the example string should produce something like
11.00pm <ENAMEX> test </ENAMEX>

Hence removing only the tags not the stuff in between and the ENAMEX tags

Im having trouble to come up with a regular expression that matches the tags (stuff in between < >) but doesnt match those ENAMEX tags.

kencl
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Apr 13, 2005, 8:06 PM

Post #2 of 2 (3322 views)

Re: [amoskoh] exclude a string in pattern [In reply to]	Can't Post

This seems to work:

Code

$string =~ s{(<.*?>)}{ $tag = $1; $tag =~ /^<\/?ENAMEX/ ? $tag : ''}ge;

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