hi
i finally got it to work. it was very simple ... _if_ you remember that its not <td>
but <td align="foo"> you are trying to match!
martin
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:04:42AM -0400, David Gray wrote:
> > >May I suggest:
> > >(my $A = $a) =~ s/^<tr><td>(\d+)<\/td>/$1/;
> > >(my $B = $b) =~ s/^<tr><td>(\d+)<\/td>/$1/;
> >
> > That's not what he's doing. He's doing:
> >
> > my ($A) = $a =~ m{^<tr><td>(\d+)</td>};
> > my ($B) = $b =~ m{^<tr><td>(\d+)</td>};
> >
> > Yours leaves everything after the </td> tacked onto the end
> > of $A; mine and his only store the number in $A.
>
> Argh, good catch. I usually do that kind of thing like:
>
> my $A = $1 if $a =~ m{^<tr><td>(\d+)</td>};
>
> But I didn't that time :)
>
> Let us know if any of this fixes your problem, Martin...
>
> -dave
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