ok, well I ended up dropping the regex and splitting the strings and re-building them after being inspired by another thread.
so,
my $str="text <!---begin---> text to be replac ed<!---end--->";
my $repl="replacement text"; my ($a,$b)=split('<!---begin--->',$str); my ($c,$d)=split('<!---end--->',$b); $str=$a.$repl.$d;
I'd still like to know if you can do this via regex however.
On Jan 2, 2004, at 5:38 PM, James Taylor wrote:
I'm trying to parse a bit out of an HTML file, where the formatting could change daily as far as spaces/newlines go. Say for example I have something like this:
$str=<<EOF; <html> <body> <p>Hello this is juts an example</p> <p><!---begin---><a href="nowhere.com">blahahahaha</a> </p><a href=" http://www.somewhere.com";> HELLO</a> </p><!---end--->Hello world</body> </html> EOF
$repl="Replacement Text";
$str =~ s/\<!---begin---\>.+?\<!---end---\>/$repl/im;
Well, that doesn't work.
Any suggestions on this one? I thought /m was supposed to make regex's span multiple lines, which seems to be the problem here, as :
print "good\n" if $str =~ /<!---begin--->.+?<!---end--->/mi
comes up with nothing, though I am able to match them on their own. Thanks
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put an 's' switch for mulitple line s/TEXT/REPLACE/is
do a "perldoc perlre" for better help
Ram
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