"Jonathan Weber" schreef:
> <a name="w12234"> </a> <h2>A Title</h2>
>
> I'm using a regular expression to find these and capture the name
> attribute ("w12234" in the example) and the contents of the h2 tag ("A
> Title").
>
> $_ =~ /<a name="(w\d+)">\s*<\/a>\s*<h2>(____+)<\/h2>/
>
> That's my regex, except I'm having trouble with the _____ part. No
> matter what I seem to try, it won't match incidences where there's a
> newline somewhere in the string. I tried all manner of things,
> including [.\n], which if I understand correctly should match
> *everything*.
Not "[.\n]" (because that contains a literal dot), but "(?:.|\n)".
Or do a "s/\n/ /g" first.
But you don't need all that, see `perldoc perlre` about the s-modifier.
And much better: use a proper HTML parser, see CPAN.
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