Thank you Shawn! That worked too! You guys are great! :)
Troy -----Original Message----- From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:19 PM To: Troy May; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Searching for a specific spot on a page my $string="someHTML"; my @split=split(/(<!--news feed-->)/,$string); my $newstring=@split[0,1].$replacement.@split[3,4]; or my $string="someHTML"; $string=~s/(.*?<!--news feed-->).*?(<!--news feed-->.*)/$1$replacement$2/ms; Not sure if the 'm' modifier is needed on the substitution... Anyway, these should do what you are looking for...but I haven't tested them. Shawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ramprasad A Padmanabhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:06 PM Subject: RE: Searching for a specific spot on a page > Thank you, that worked! :) > > By the way, I'm thinking of a new thing that I want to do. How would I > alter this to open another page the same way, but replace the html code > BETWEEN two "<!--news feed-->" with the same $html? I could rename the > second "<!--news feed-->" if that would be easier. But I'm looking at > regexes to do this, but I'm not real good with them. This won't be just > text, it won't be just digits, etc. It would be a combination of > everything. (complete HTML coding) > > Any ideas on this one? Or should I start a new topic? > > Thanks again! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Searching for a specific spot on a page > > > Do it this way > > > if( open(IN,$file)) { > local($/)=undef; > $filestr = <IN>; > } > close IN; > $SEARCH = '<!--news feed-->'; > $filestr=~s/$SEARCH/$SEARCH $HTML/; > > open(OUT,">$file") || die "$!"; > print OUT $filestr; > close OUT; > > > Troy May wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to do a news feed type of script from an admin page. I need to > > open up a page and find the line that starts with "<!--news feed-->" and > > insert "$html" right after that. I'm drawing a blank on how to search for > > that line. This is probably easy, but I can't think of how to do it. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Troy > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
