parsing issues 2

[CristianLuca]

how can i extract a root using a pattern match ?

url type :
<h2 class=r><a href=\"

http://www.something.com/"

i use this :
<h2 class=r><a href=\"http:\/\/(.+?)\/\"/

but it grabs alot of things that i do not want.
for example : <h2 class=r><a href=\"http:

http://www.axcassd.com/sjdlksajds/djfjsdflksdf/lkdsjfkd/"

it greps it as correct . How can i make sure that the pattern of the url is "

http://wwww.something.xxx/"

?
xxx = {com,net,org ...}

Thanks ,
Cristian

 

[travs69]

You might want to look at

http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/HTML-SimpleLinkExtor-1.19/lib/SimpleLinkExtor.pm

and are you sure you want

http://wwww.?

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[MillerH]

Do this using two steps.

First extract hrefs using HTML::LinkExtor like travs suggests any other cpan module such as HTML:arser. And only then worry about the contents of the link.

I suggest you use the URI class in order to process href and determine the domain if that's what you want to do.

Basically, you should always try to isolate your logic into their respective parts. In this case, the first step is processing HTML. The second step is processing URI's.

- Miller