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Howto: Parse HTML tags to get content in between 3
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I am NOT good at regexes, but I'll throw on at you. No guarantee that more than 1% of it will be correct though 
I was told the .* is picky, which may be the case but I tried. If any one else in here has a nice place to go for regex explanations, feel free to post a URL. I'd like to take a look.
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/<special>(.*)<\/special>/gi;I was told the .* is picky, which may be the case but I tried. If any one else in here has a nice place to go for regex explanations, feel free to post a URL. I'd like to take a look.
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Try using HTML::TokeParser.
A nicely explained example is here:
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A nicely explained example is here:
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thanks for the stars!
$html = '<html>
<head>
blah blah blah
<special>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
</special>
</head>
<body>
blah blah blah blah blah blah
</body>
</html>';
print "before:\n——————\n$html\n\n";
$new_content = 'lots of new stuff here';
$html =~ s|<special>(.+)</special>|<special>\n$new_content\n</special>|s;
print "after:\n—————\n$html\n\n";
Kind Regards
Duncan
$html = '<html>
<head>
blah blah blah
<special>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
</special>
</head>
<body>
blah blah blah blah blah blah
</body>
</html>';
print "before:\n——————\n$html\n\n";
$new_content = 'lots of new stuff here';
$html =~ s|<special>(.+)</special>|<special>\n$new_content\n</special>|s;
print "after:\n—————\n$html\n\n";
Kind Regards
Duncan
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