Re: Matching within the LHS of a regex...

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Jul 30, David Wood said:

>$str = qq(
><udb:person>
>  <data_one>some data</data_one>
>  <data_two>some more data</data_two>
></udb:person>
>);
>
>What I need to do is something like:-
>
>$str =~ s/<udb:[^>]+\n(.*?)<\/udb:$1>/$sub->($1,$2)/gs;

Even if you change the $1 to a \1, it won't match, since you have

  <udb:[^>]+\n

when you need

  <udb:[^>]+>\n

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