On Friday 26 September 2008 03:12:12 pm John W. Krahn wrote: > Jack Gates wrote: > > On Friday 26 September 2008 12:48:14 pm 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? > > > > John helped me achieve what I wanted. His RE sample got me to > > the right place after tweaking it a little. > > > > I would like to understand why what I originally had did not > > work, so I can learn better. Will some one show me why my > > original RE did not work? Meaning it did not get the tags as > > explained above previously. > > Match '<' or '</' followed by one character that is not '!' > followed by one or more of 'A-Z0-9 ' followed by '>'. > > Your pattern will not match '<I>' because that contains three > characters but your pattern has to match at least four > characters. > > > > John > -- > Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you > can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and > in short order. -- Larry Wall
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