Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] good idea or bad idea?

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:16:21PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> Sorry for taking so long to reply and thank you, but here it is:  thanks.
> 
> I decided to stick with my own implementation instead of using the 
> single regex you had.  The reason is this, I tried your regex and it 
> kept failing.  I couldn't figure it out until I looked at the 
> original HTML page.  I'm looking at the value of a particular META 
> tag and they had reversed the name= and content= from what I 
> typically see (name first then content).  Obviously I could just 
> reverse the order in your regex, but then I got paranoid that they 
> might decide to do it the "normal" way and break that regex too.
> 
> my way is position independent (not that that is the reason i wrote 
> it that way 8-) and I couldn't think of a way to write a single regex 
> that was position independent to strip out the data I'm looking for.

If you can't think of a way to do it with a single regex, do it with two
regexes.  :)

my($story_time) =
   $sci_page_head =~ /(.*OriginalPublicationDate.*)/
   and $1 =~ /content="(.*)"/i;

Ronald

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