From: Michael Perle <michael_perle@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T21:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: parsing HTML code with regex

Anthony Walsh wrote:
> I'm trying to parse through some html code and count the number of times 
> a match happens. The file is a large table with a ton of <tr> and <tr 
> 'something'>. There are no spaces in the file. I'm trying to count and 
> print each <tr> and <tr 'something'>.
> 
> I haven't even gotten to counting my matches. I'm still working on 
> matching with <tr> or <tr 'anything'>
> 
> I've done:
> 
> op_file = HTML_CODE
> if op_file =~ /(<tr(.*?)>)+/

You are parsing always one line only.
Perhaps you mean a Regular Expression like

/(<tr([^>]*?>)+/m

Anyway I am not sure if the if... is the right
construct. Don't you want to get the return value
of the match, which delivers you a MatchData
object from which you can get the results as
an array or so.

MP