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in reply to how to to find the "/" in a string

The answer to the specific question you ask can be found in the first section of perlrequick:

Finally, the // default delimiters for a match can be changed to arbitrary delimiters by putting an 'm' out front: 

    "Hello World" =~ m!World!; # matches, delimited by '!'
    "Hello World" =~ m{World}; # matches, note the matching '{}'
    "/usr/bin/perl" =~ m"/perl"; # matches after '/usr/bin',
    # '/' becomes an ordinary char

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But so you do less work up front, and endure less pain in the longrun, you might benefit from one of the many HTML parsers on CPAN.


Dave

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