Re^2: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

[the_0ne]

in reply to Re: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.
in thread Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

My problem with the first match is it matches too much...

original:
"<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no tabs here</p>"

result of first regex:
no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2

What I want it to match is...

column 1[tab]column 2

Since that is the set of para's with the string [tab].

[moritz]

My first shot was too fast, here's a working solution:

my $contents = "<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no t
+abs here</p>";

if ($contents =~ m{(<p>[^<>]*\[tab\][^<>]*</p>)} ){
    print "Matched '$1'\n;";
}