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Re: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

by jepri (Parson)
on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:11 UTC ( [id://667070]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

I try to avoid getting too tricky with regexes, because I am a bear of little brain. I'd break the string up then inspect it in pieces, perhaps like this:

my @arr = split /<\/p>/, $string; @matches = grep { /\[tab\]/ } @arr;

one extra line but much easier for me. If I was concerned about it looking neat, I'd put the code inside a subroutine called match_tabs().

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Re^2: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:26 UTC
    One minor difference is that splitting this way removes the close-paragraph, but not the open-paragraph, so you need to remove it.
    my @arr = grep {/\[tab\]/ and s/^<p>//} split /<\/p>/, $contents;
    If you wanted to retain both tags, you could do so by splitting on a lookbehind expression:
    my @arr = grep /\[tab\]/, split /(?<=<\/p>)/, $contents;
    You'd also retain the paragraph-close if you used it for $/ and read the string as a file.
    { local $/ = '</p>'; open (STR, '<', \$contents) or die "Opening string: $!\n"; @arr = grep /^<p>/ && /\[tab\]/, <STR>; print "read $_\n" for @arr; }
    But now I'm just getting silly.

    Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.
      You seem to be a bit focussed on using big regexes :P

      map { s/<P>// } grep { /\[tab\]/ } split /<\/p>/, $string;

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        I think you should try this out. It doesn't do what you think it does.

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Re^2: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.
by the_0ne (Pilgrim) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:26 UTC
    hmmm, actually makes sense. Luckily most of the time I will be looking exactly for what I originally showed in my example. This should work ok. I'll have to mess with it and see if there's anything I didn't think of that may pop up.

    Thanks.

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