From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-10-25T21:45:39+09:00
Subject: Re: parsing HTML code with regex

Hi --

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Michael Perle wrote:

> 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

The /m doesn't make any difference there, because you're not using the
wildcard dot.  /m just adds \n to the dot class.


David

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