Re: help parsing HTML code
Marcel Grunauer (marcel@codewerk.com)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:08:26 +0000
In message <F217Vux1Zcn8TtEvzox0000139d@hotmail.com>, "gil cohen" writes:
>You don't any of that weird stuff. All you need is a simple regex. In that
>$res->is_sucess if, put something like:
>$content =~ m/<input type=\"text\" size=\"10\" name=\"video_fec_errors_rx\"
>value=\"(.*?)\" READONLY>/;
>$value = $1;
>
>and now $value has what value is equal to.
Until someone decides to rearrange the parameters or make them uppercase
or forgo quotes or split them among several lines.
Better use one of the HTML parsing modules.
BTW, no need to escape the quotes in the regex. And what happens if
there is no match? Then $1 has an undefined value.
Marcel
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