Perl Regex matching HTML

hawk__0 · 03-19-2010, 06:37 PM

I'm trying to find out how to extract the string between the 2 <title> tags: <title>this is what i want</title>.

I found lots of results but nothing I've tried works.. EG:
$page =~ m/<title>($.)<\/title>/gism;

Sergei Steshenko · 03-19-2010, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawk__0

I'm trying to find out how to extract the string between the 2 <title> tags: <title>this is what i want</title>.

I found lots of results but nothing I've tried works.. EG:
$page =~ m/<title>($.)<\/title>/gism;

Why not use existing HTML parsing Perl modules ?

neonsignal · 03-19-2010, 07:57 PM

Maybe you want a substitution rather than a match:

Code:

$page =~ s#<title>(.*)</title>#$1#im;

Although as Sergei Steshenko suggests, you are better off using a proper HTML parser, since there are variations of the tags which will become unwieldy when using regular expressions.