ekbworldwide wrote: > I want to remove the last paragraph tag and its contents. > > From this: > _____________________________________________ > <p>It feels, at least to me, a bit more like You-Tube</p> <p><em>Do > you > use the aspects of it? Or do you just plainly use it as a way to keep > posted on your RSS feeds?</em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow" > target="_blank" > href="http://www.site.com/";>Buy an ad</a> right here. You are reading > this aren't you?</p> Similar Posts: > _____________________________________________ > > I want to remove this: > > _____________________________________________ > <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" > href="http://www.site.com/";>Buy an ad</a> right here. You are reading > this aren't you?</p> > _____________________________________________ > > How can I? > > If you do provide an answer - could you explain how it works? My grab > of regex is very weak. > >
HTML, particularly ugly HTML, is notoriously hard to parse with regexes. Try an HTML parsing module instead. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::TokeParser::Simple Then you'd more than likely have to loop over the structure until you get to the end, then back up until you find a "P" and then forward from there. -- Brian J. Miller End Point Corp. br...@endpoint.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
