You need to use the g option to your regex to tell it that you want all the matches in the string.
So my @result = $html =~ /.*$index.*<blockquote>(.*)<\/blockquote>/g; should get you closer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yuan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:07 PM Subject: question about regex > Hi, All: > > I have problem with regex. I try to get some content > from a html source and print it out on the screen. > the following is my code: > > use LWP::Simple qw(get); > my $url = "http://www.somewebsite.com";; > my $html = get($url); > my $index = "some index number"; > > my @result = $html =~ > /.*$index.*<blockquote>(.*)<\/blockquote>/; > print "$1\n"; > > I try to catch anything between <blockquote> and > </blockquote> based on $index. The resulte gave me the > first match in the source, which is empty space within > first pair of > <blockquote> > > </blockquote> > > how to research the next pair of <blkqt> </blkqt> > which has ssome content inside? I tried several regex, > it just didn't work. Thanks > > yc > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com > > -- > 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]
