Thanks Jeff, that helps. I use HTML::Parser for various tasks, but for
this particular one, I need exact matching, hence the regex.
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 09:57, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Jan 26, Mark Maunder said:
>
> >I'm matching html using regex and use something like this to grab a
> >chunk of text up to the next html tag:
> >
> ><font>([^<]+)</font>
> >
> >But I'd like to say "match everything that does not include the string
> ><br>" rather than "match everything that does not include a "<"
> >character. Anyone got any suggestions?
>
> First, I don't suggest using regexes to parse HTML.
>
> What you want, though, is:
>
> m{
> <font>
> ( (?: [^<]+ | < (?!/font>) )* )
> </font>
> }
>
> The middle part of that regex says "match either 'one or more non-<' or 'a
> < that is not followed by /font' zero or more times".
>
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