Re: Example of inconsistent regex matching

Parsing HTML by hand is always fragile, and in my experience never ends well. Have you considered a module like HTML::TreeBuilder and then use its look_down method to select just the elements you're interested in?

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Re^2: Example of inconsistent regex matching by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 22, 2015 at 00:08 UTC
Having expressed that wisdom myself, I blush to admit I expected to write a quick and dirty one-off for a job that -- while tedious -- I could have done in far less time manually, and, undoubtedly, were I familiar with the `HTML::TreeBuilder` or some of it's cousins, with one of those. But the truly horrid html (tables nested in tables; etc.) also disinclined me to attack it with a tool that pretty much expects (and I understand it; pls correct me if this is wrong) more-or-less standards-compliant source. In short, + + ; thank you ... but at this point, I'm far more interested in the apparently regex anomaly than in re-writing code that might get used as often as annually. `++$anecdote ne $data`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Example of inconsistent regex matching by 1nickt (Canon) on Nov 22, 2015 at 13:55 UTC
What's wrong with nested tables? The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]


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