On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:47 -0800, Kevin Miller wrote:
> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > What you want. The string '<br>', repeated five times (or more). For
> > the quantifier, you need to group the string.
> >
> > /(?:<br>){5}/
> Great. I've changed my rule to that, and am going to look at Adam's
> somewhat enhanced version to understand what all it's doing. To wit:
> rawbody LOCAL_5X_BR_TAGS /(?:<br\/?>[\s\r\n]{0,4}){5}/mi
That should do the trick indeed.
After this, I strongly suggest to carefully re-read the entire thread,
and read some docs specifically about the points raised. That includes
RE peculiarities [1] you used with previous REs without knowing them, as
well as my escaping notes with using the shell.
> I note that Adam used rawbody rather than body, so I presume that I
> should change my rule to that as well.
Yup, he explained why you need that -- otherwise, HTML tags are not
preserved verbatim, but HTML parts rendered and normalized.
[1] PCRE flavor, Perl Compatible REs.
--
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
