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Help with REG EXP Perl Code basic question

GuerillaSquad
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Aug 31, 2009, 11:16 AM

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Help with REG EXP Perl Code basic question	Can't Post

I have a piece of PERL code. I know what the code does but I cannot figure out in any documentation the usage. I will put the short code line here and then ask my question...

s#<(/?)H1>#<$1H2>#g;

Q. What does the /? do?

I know the () are tagging so I can call $1 later, and I can figure out the /? is saying anything before "H1", but how is it saying that?

Thanks,
Mike

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KevinR
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Aug 31, 2009, 11:47 AM

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Re: [MikeDexter] Help with REG EXP Perl Code basic question [In reply to]	Can't Post

In that context the "?" is a quantifier meaning "zero or one" so it means if there are zero or one forward slashes "/?" the match is true. It will match the opening and closing H1 html tags:

<H1>
</H1>

Its turning all H1 tags into H2 tags.
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GuerillaSquad
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Aug 31, 2009, 11:52 AM

Post #3 of 3 (6215 views)

Re: [KevinR] Help with REG EXP Perl Code basic question [In reply to]	Can't Post

KevinR,

Very Clever.

I was not thinking about the closing tag preservation. Thanks for the response.

Mike

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