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fds
Novice

Aug 31, 2010, 4:07 AM

Post #1 of 6 (2146 views)

Action input between HTML tags	Can't Post

Hi, I have input from a form textarea. It could contain text and or html. What I'm trying to is define any html tag, and then do something with the input inside that specific tag.

Here's what I've done, but it dosn't work - I'm probably going about it all wrong.

Code

$txtin = "<b>Hello</b> 
My text and then the tagged input. 
<sometag><b>aaaaa</b></sometag>"; 
 
#foreach $line (@txtin) { 
for $txtin ($txtin) { 
if (/<sometag>/ .. /<\/sometag>/) { 
	$txtin =~ s/</&#60;/g; 
	$txtin =~ s/>/&#62;/g; 
	} 
 else {$txtin} 
} 
print qq ~<html><head><title></title></head><body>~; 
 
print "$txtin<br>"; 
 
print qq ~</div></body></html>~;

In this example I would want to keep everything as is, except between the "sometags".

Can anyone help on this please.
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tej.87g
Novice

Aug 31, 2010, 4:23 AM

Post #2 of 6 (2141 views)

Re: [Ted] Action input between HTML tags [In reply to]	Can't Post

Check if this is working

Code

$txtin = "<b>Hello</b>  
My text and then the tagged input.  
<sometag><b>aaaaa</b></sometag>"; 
 
while ($txtin=~m/<sometag>(*.?)<\/sometag>/g) { 
  $txtin =~ s/</&#60;/g;  
	$txtin =~ s/>/&#62;/g;  
 
}

fds
Novice

Aug 31, 2010, 5:03 AM

Post #3 of 6 (2135 views)

Re: [tej.87g] Action input between HTML tags [In reply to]	Can't Post

Gave it a try and it came back with this:

Code

Unknown verb pattern '.?' in regex; marked by  
<-- HERE in m/<sometag>(*.?) <-- HERE </sometag>/ 
 at ......... line 11.

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Zhris
Enthusiast

Aug 31, 2010, 11:01 AM

Post #4 of 6 (2108 views)

Re: [Ted] Action input between HTML tags [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi, I haven't tested but I think tej meant to do (.*?) not (*.?).

Chris

fds
Novice

Aug 31, 2010, 1:21 PM

Post #5 of 6 (2094 views)

Re: [Zhris] Action input between HTML tags [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi, I'll have to test it later now, as I'm into hospital early tomorrow morning for an eye operation and will be out of action for a couple weeks.

I see what you mean though. Normally an asterisk has to be there, it's just difficult for me to see at the moment. Shoulda realized it earlier.

Edit:
Yes that was the problem. I get entities showing now. It's a start and I should be able to take it from here.

Thanks a lot guys - Ted
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(This post was edited by Ted on Aug 31, 2010, 1:57 PM)

Zhris
Enthusiast

Aug 31, 2010, 2:16 PM

Post #6 of 6 (2081 views)

Re: [Ted] Action input between HTML tags [In reply to]	Can't Post

Get well soon :).

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