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lazyme
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Mar 10, 2010, 9:46 PM

Post #1 of 4 (2012 views)

Need help with regular expression	Can't Post

I have the strings in the format below

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<a  id="thumbTitle_browse_1" class="thumbTitle maxLines2" href="/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/e177035tNrcdHRj" title="Family Guy: Season 4 Review!" onclick="return handleVideoClick(this);"> 
			Family Guy: Season 4 Review!		</a> 
 
 
<a  id="thumbTitle_browse_2" class="thumbTitle maxLines2" href="/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v2353068cFYxqHtK" title="family guy" onclick="return handleVideoClick(this);"> 
			family guy 		</a>

I need to read the value inside the <a> </a> tags. Consider $string has one of these string. I am trying to write a regular expression as

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$image3 =~ m{<a  id="thumbTitle_browse_.".*>(.*?)<\/a>}gsi

So that the value would be stored as $1. However the expression is not correct. Can someone please help me define the regular expression.

Thanks

FishMonger
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Mar 11, 2010, 5:39 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1993 views)

Re: [lazyme] Need help with regular expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

Don't use a regex.

Use an HTML parser.

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=HTML%3A%3ATokeParser&mode=all

rovf
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Mar 11, 2010, 6:41 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1985 views)

Re: [lazyme] Need help with regular expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

FishMonger is right, but if you want to use a regexp, I think you should make the first .* non-greedy too.

roolic
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Mar 22, 2010, 11:17 PM

Post #4 of 4 (1885 views)

Re: [FishMonger] Need help with regular expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

my @a_teg_contents = ($string =~ /<a[^>]*thumbTitle_browse[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/gi);

NB: the /g option usage will cause returning an array of found substrings, the /s option is useless unless you use the variable within the regex (like =~ /$re/ )

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