Hi Monks,
I must be missing something obvious here. I want to grab the text between the strings <blockquote> and </blockquote> so I tried this ...
$ cat test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $data;
while(<DATA>) {
$data .= $_;
}
my $stuff = "uninit";
if ( $data =~ /<blockquote>(.*)<\/blockquote>/m ) {
$stuff = $1;
}
print "$stuff\n";
__DATA__
</p>
<blockquote>This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations
+ of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
</blockquote>
<!-- if div.cd-cover --><div class="cd-cover">
</div><!-- end if -->
The output is simply ...
uninit
... I was hoping for ...
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in
+Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
... what am I doing wrong here?
Thanks!
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