On Feb 3, 2008 8:50 AM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am trying to construct a regular expression to extract strings having the > structure > > <a href="http://...";> > > from HTML files, as part of learning regexes. I have used the script below to > do > this: snip
Part of learning to use regexes is learning when not to use them. This is a job for an HTML parser, not a single regex. Offhand, I would say that your problem is that the anchor tag is spread across more than one line and your script appears to be reading the file one line at a time. This is but one corner case you will have to deal with (which is why you should use a parser instead). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
