regular expression could do this?(newbie)

09-21-2004

I want to pattern a text block, but the text block very large(and
multi-line), the first line should be:
<html><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

and the end of the text block:
rel="external" target="new">Forum</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

so, how I can pattern the text block in a html file(many html files
waiting for pattern and then replace to"")

I have seen much examples, but can't find a example could do this
--
Your fault as a Government is My failure as a citizen

09-21-2004

"Alont" <> wrote in message
news:41519803.43923109@130.133.1.4...
>I want to pattern a text block, but the text block very large(and
> multi-line), the first line should be:
> <html><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>
> and the end of the text block:
> rel="external" target="new">Forum</a></li>
> </ul>
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> so, how I can pattern the text block in a html file(many html files
> waiting for pattern and then replace to"")
>
> I have seen much examples, but can't find a example could do this
> --
> Your fault as a Government is My failure as a citizen

Using regexs on HTML is _very_ difficult; especially "many" "very large"
files. My advice would be to not even consider it. There are many good
modules to parse HTML (I use HTML::Tokeparser) and I would urge you to have
a look at them. If you hit any snags come back with what you have tried and
we'll see how we go from there.
Best of luck.

09-21-2004

"wfsp" <>Wrote at Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:35:32 +0000
(UTC):
>Using regexs on HTML is _very_ difficult; especially "many" "very large"
>files. My advice would be to not even consider it. There are many good
>modules to parse HTML (I use HTML::Tokeparser) and I would urge you to have
>a look at them. If you hit any snags come back with what you have tried and
>we'll see how we go from there.
>Best of luck.
>

I'll try what you say, thank you

--
Your fault as a Government is My failure as a citizen

09-21-2004

Alont <> wrote in message news:<41519803.43923109@130.133.1.4>...
> I want to pattern a text block, but the text block very large(and
> multi-line), the first line should be:
> <html><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>
> and the end of the text block:
> rel="external" target="new">Forum</a></li>
> </ul>
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> so, how I can pattern the text block in a html file(many html files
> waiting for pattern and then replace to"")
>

The keys to solving a regex like this are: (1) use the 's' qualifier
so '\n' gets counted in '.'; (2) use the 'x' qualifier so that you can
include comments and whitespace within the substitution code; (3)
build up the successful matches incrementally. I built up the
successful match using the commented-out lines below beginning with
'if'.

my $str = '<html><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"

text in the middle:
rel="external" target="new">Forum</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
';

print $str, "\n";

# if ($str =~ s{<html><!DOCTYPE\shtml\sPUBLIC\s"}
# if ($str =~ s{<html><!DOCTYPE\shtml\sPUBLIC\s"-\/\/W3C}
# if ($str =~ s{<html><!DOCTYPE\shtml\sPUBLIC\s"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD\sXHTML\s1.0\s}
# if ($str =~ s{<html><!DOCTYPE\shtml\sPUBLIC\s"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD\sXHTML\s1.0\sTransitional\/\/EN"\n}
# failure
if ($str =~ s{<html><!DOCTYPE\shtml\sPUBLIC\s"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD\sXHTML\s1.0\sTransitional\/\/EN"\s
.*\s
rel="external"\starget="new">Forum<\/a><\/li>\s
\s+<\/ul>\s
\s+<\/div>\s
\s+<\/div>\s
<\/div>\s
} # end of pattern to be matched
{""}sx # text to be
substituted
# qualifiers to make \n work as \s, ignore whitespace and
comments
) # end of 'if' condition
{
print "Success! String is now:\n";
print "$str\n";
} else {
print "Failure\n";
}

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