Jack Gates wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2008 02:52:45 pm Rob Dixon wrote: >> Jack Gates wrote: >>> On Friday 26 September 2008 01:20:29 pm Rob Dixon wrote: >>>> Jack Gates wrote: >>>>> s!(<|</)([^\!][A-Z0-9 ]+>)!$1\L$2\E!g; >>>>> or >>>>> s/(<|<\/)([^!][A-Z0-9 ]+>)/$1\L$2\E/g; >>>>> >>>>> The RE above captures and replaces all HTML tags with >>>>> lowercase as desired except for any tag that has only one >>>>> letter such as <P>, <B> or <I> >>>>> >>>>> It will get the </B>, </P> and </I> >>>>> >>>>> It properly ignores the <!DOCTYPE> tag >>>>> >>>>> What is the correct way to write the above RE? >>>> HTML tag names can't contain spaces, so you want >>>> >>>> s|(</?)([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)|$1\L$2|g; >>> Thanks for the effort. Your RE does not work as well as what I >>> have. >>> >>> HTML tags can contain spaces. >>> You forgot about >>> <p id="something" class="something"> >> No, I didn't. The tag name is 'p' and it has no spaces in it. The >> tag has two attributes named 'id' and 'class'. They don't have >> spaces in them either. >> >> If you prefer yours that doesn't work on tags with >> single-character names just because it happens to also modify the >> first attribute name then go ahead and use it. >> >> I'm pretty sure there is no simple way to change the case of a >> tag's name and all its attribute names while leaving the >> attribute values intact. > > I was not talking about the HTML tag name but the entire tag which > includes everything in it. > > And yes I have a RE that does exactly what I want with John's help. > > Rob, PLEASE STOP CCing ME. I am subscribed to the list.
That's fine, I shall stop trying to help you altogether. You are very rude and don't want to accept correction. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
