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Re: Re: Re: regular expression (search and destroy)by davido (Cardinal) |
on Nov 13, 2003 at 00:14 UTC ( [id://306685]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I cannot enumerate all the difficulties associated with trying to parse a string where delimiters between quotes should be treated as text and not delimiters. But here are a few problems...
Those reasons and others make it much better to parse such entities using a "balanced text" module. And what sauok was telling you was that Text::Balanced is a "core" module, meaning, a module that if you have Perl, you have that module already, without waiting for a sysadmin to install it. And what others have also suggested is that even if you can't use a CORE module (a module that comes with Perl, just like stdio.h comes with C), at very least you can use your web browser to view the source of a module, on the CPAN website. Then, you can have a look at what tools are used to accomplish your objective. Otherwise, you're wasting your efforts and building a broken solution.
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