Re: Multiple line regex match

[edan]

The textbook answer will be "Don't use a Regex to parse HTML, use a parser!" (such as HTML::Parser, HTML::TokeParser).

If you're really bent on doing it the quick and dirty (and wrong) way, you might want to look at turning your .*'s into .*?, and read on up greediness in perlre to see why.

[dogen]

Thanks, the .*? worked, as follows (used with the s option ath the end of the regex):

my $order_reg = "<p>Transaction Number:<\/p>.*?<\/td>.*?<td .*?>(.*?)<
+\/td>";