Re: Regex puzzler!

2006-02-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Mike Blezien wrote: > Hello, Hello, > I'm trying to extract an image name from the follow html tag > > $imageURL = "" > > now I need to extract the 'thebest_Small.png' filename from the img tag, > but havent't been able to figure out how to do this correctly. > > i tried: > $imageURL =~ !!; >

Re: Regex puzzler!

2006-02-08 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 2/8/06, Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is what I ended up doing and it seems to work, unless you see a potiental > problem with it: > > $imageURL =~ //; > $audioimage = $1; > > this give the image filename i needed. Cool! I'm glad you got it to work. And, so long as you don't m

Re: Regex puzzler!

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Blezien
this is what I ended up doing and it seems to work, unless you see a potiental problem with it: $imageURL =~ //; $audioimage = $1; this give the image filename i needed. Mike Tom Phoenix wrote: On 2/8/06, Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to extract an image name from the

Re: Regex puzzler!

2006-02-08 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 2/8/06, Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to extract an image name from the follow html tag > i tried: > $imageURL =~ !!; > $pic = $1; > > but that produces errors. what I'm doing wrong here ?? Your small error is forgetting that the question mark is a metacharacter. S

Re: Regex puzzler!

2006-02-08 Thread Peter Cornelius
The first thing that jumps out at me is that the '.*' pattern is going to be a greedy match. This means it will match everything, swallowing the '" BORDER=0> part of the string too. You can make the * non-greedy by putting a '?' after it. $imageURL =~ !!; but you might be better off with

Regex puzzler!

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Blezien
Hello, I'm trying to extract an image name from the follow html tag $imageURL = "" now I need to extract the 'thebest_Small.png' filename from the img tag, but havent't been able to figure out how to do this correctly. i tried: $imageURL =~ !!; $pic = $1; but that produces errors. what