Re: [MacPerl] Searching for HTML

[David Graff <graff@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>]

This pattern:

<select name=\"fromlist\".*?</select>

will probably work if modified as follows:

 if ( m%<select name=\"fromlist\"[^<]*</select>%s ) { ... }

Please note three things: 

 - use of ``%'' (or any other character that is not used inside the 
expression) instead of ``/'' to bound the expression (or, bound with ``/'' but 
then escape the slash that is part of the expression:  <\/select>

 - use of ``[^<]*'' instead of ``.*?'' -- maybe not an essential thing, but 
good form

 - use of the "s" modifier after the closing % -- this is what Ricky Morse was 
trying to remember.  Actually since we're not using ".*" anymore, this may not 
be necessary

Good luck.  (I hope I'm at least close to being right.)

	Dave Graff



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