From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andy Postulka
Sent: 21 October 2008 17:47
To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: RegExp matching over multiple lines
> Hi to everyone,
>
> First off I hope I'm posting this to the right Mailing list.
> If not, please forgive me in advance. I just started using ActivePerl
>
> I'm having difficulty using RegExp to match/extract across several
lines in an HTML file.
>
> I want to match and extract everything between a pair of HTML tags.
> This Match/Extraction can occur over multiple lines in an HTML file.
>
> I'm using the following RegExp to test the HTML file for a
Match/Extraction
>
> /<div >(.*?)<\/div>/s
>
>
> Here is my Test HTML file.
>
> Case #1
> <div > Some text Number 1
> </div>
>
> Case #2
> <div > Some text Number 2 </div>
>
> Case #3
> <div >
> Some text Number 3
> </div>
>
> This only match that occurs is "Case #2" when the Tag pair occurs on
the same line.
> So that tells me the RegExp works for a single line.
>
> When I split the Tag Pair over more that one line (Case # 1 & Case #3)
it fails to match.
> Since the "." does not match the "new line" characters I've used the
"s" modifier, but that does not seem to
> work
>
> I've tried using different combinations of the "s" & "m" modifiers
which didn't seem to help any
> I've also tried to "chomp()" each line to strip the new line
characters from each line before applying the
> RegExp and use the different combination of the "sm" modifiers. That
didn't work either.
That regular expression works fine on that data for me. There must be
something you are not telling us. It would have helped if you posted
real code, e.g.
------------------------------------
use strict;
use warnings;
local $/;
my $data = <DATA>;
while ($data =~ /<div >(.*?)<\/div>/sg) {
print "Found '$1'\n";
}
__DATA__
Case #1
<div > Some text Number 1
</div>
Case #2
<div > Some text Number 2 </div>
Case #3
<div >
Some text Number 3
</div>
------------------------------------
However, the best advice that can give is that regular expressions are
not a good tool to parse HTML, but HTML::Parser is. Or better still one
of the modules that is derived from it, e.g. HTML::TokeParser or
HTML::TreeBuilder.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
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