Re: Parsing HTML tags with regex

Here is the regex to match the tag with attributes value.

m#<([^">]+(?:"[^"]+")*[^>]+)>#
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Thanks,
Gopal.R

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Re^2: Parsing HTML tags with regex by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 14, 2005 at 11:22 UTC
But that would match on: `a < b implies b > a` [download] which does not contain an HTML tag. Oh, and it won't match all HTML tags correctly either. Consider for instance: `<tag attr1="one" attr2="two"> <tag attr='"'> <tag attr1='"'>` [download] The first one fails to match because your regex requires that if there are double quoted values inside a tag, they must follow each other. And the second fails because your regex doesn't consider single quoted values. `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Parsing HTML tags with regex by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2012 at 09:11 UTC
thanks gopal the above regex was usefull	[reply]
Re^2: Parsing HTML tags with regex by jithoosin (Scribe) on Nov 11, 2005 at 09:23 UTC
Hi gopal, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I won the bet .But now i am in bit of trouble. I donot know how to explain the working to my friends.So could you PLEASE explain the working of the regular expression.Once again THANK YOU VERY MUCH GOPAL.	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing HTML tags with regex by gopalr (Priest) on Nov 11, 2005 at 10:09 UTC
`m# < ## start with < ( ## group start [^">]+ ## text but Not match " and > (?:"[^"]+")* ## if " found, match till end quote found. Its optional [^>]+ ## text but Not match and > ) ## group end > ## End with > #` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Parsing HTML tags with regex by jithoosin (Scribe) on Nov 11, 2005 at 12:21 UTC
Hi gopal, There is a problem if the input string is `my $line = "<select name=\"url><23\" style=\"width><A125px\" >";` .But i think a slight modification to your previous answer will do the job then `#$line =~ m#<([^">]+(?:"[^"]+"))[^>]+>#;` IS there any problem.Also provide me an asnwer for the question about `<!--->--->` thing	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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