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Re^2: Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block?

by taint (Chaplain)
on Dec 18, 2013 at 00:33 UTC ( [id://1067560]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block?
in thread Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block?

Ahh. I see. I didn't have any code (other than the RE I was using). Because, at this point, if I can't even match the block. There would be no point in attempting to replace. So I hadn't bothered to attempt to replace anything yet. I'm still trying to figure out how to correctly match what I need.

Just seemed the logical progression, in learning to do it. :)

Thanks GrandFather, for the reply (and suggestion).

--Chris

Yes. What say about me, is true.

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Re^3: Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 18, 2013 at 01:39 UTC

    I agree that use of an XML parser is likely to be a better idea, but just an example of what your fellow monks were hoping for as an example of what you tried and what resulted (except this works):

    >perl -wMstrict -le "my $s = qq{xxx </div>\n</body> xxx}; print qq{[[$s]]}; ;; my $tags = qr{ </div> \n </body> }xms; $s =~ s{ $tags }{gone}xms; print qq{[[$s]]}; " [[xxx </div> </body> xxx]] [[xxx gone xxx]]

    Question: Are you sure it's only a single newline that's present? The presence of other whitespace characters than just a newline can confuse the issue. The following might be a better regex:
        qr{ </div> \s* </body> }xms

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