Removing data between two HTML tags?

[Rob]

Hello,

I am trying to use perl to remove all data which comes between these
two tags:

<div class="left">......</div>


This is the code I have so far but it is not doing the job:

$description=~ s|(.*? <div \s+ class="left"> .*? <div \s+
class="left"> .*?)<div \s+ class="left"> .*? </div>(.*? <div \s+
class="left">)|$1$2|sxg;

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Rob

 

[James Wright]

Hello,

I am trying to use perl to remove all data which comes between these
two tags:

<div class="left">......</div>


This is the code I have so far but it is not doing the job:

$description=~ s|(.*?<div \s+ class="left"> .*?<div \s+
class="left"> .*?)<div \s+ class="left"> .*?</div>(.*?<div \s+
class="left">)|$1$2|sxg;

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Rob

Use an HTML parser.

 

[Marc Girod]

Any help would be appreciated.

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_frm/thread/
2d4cc24fcb76efc5/23fc643b6a5af104?lnk=gst&q=Removing+data+between+two
+HTML+tags#23fc643b6a5af104>

i.e. http://tinyurl.com/64uvzgp

There was a thread on this withing the last couple of months, but
Google didn't find it using 'Removing data between two HTML tags'.

Marc

 

[Marc Girod]

Argh. Not exactly as intended. Correction:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...+between+two+HTML+tags&qt_g=Search+this+group

http://tinyurl.com/6kbdrh4

There was a thread on this withing the last couple of months

within

Sorry for that.
Marc

 

[ccc31807]

My bitter experience tells me that only pain lies along this road you
are taking.

Still, it's instructive to make the attempt. A long time ago I
attempted to do something like this by building an RE incrementally,
piece by piece. I failed, but the lessons I learned have stood me in
very good stead, and several times a month I build complex REs the
same way. And guess what? I don't fail!

I'm not saying that the OP should reinvent the wheel, but that the OP
needs to go through the process of reinventing the wheel so he can
understand how the original wheel inventors did it, and then he can
use that knowledge to invent something useful on his own.

CC.

 

[brian d foy]

Hello,

I am trying to use perl to remove all data which comes between these
two tags:

<div class="left">......</div>

My article "Process HTML with a Perl Module" may get you started in the
right direction:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1581075

 

[Rob]

<969eb4b1-46d4-4ce4-b960-b1abd2563...@f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,

Thank you all for your help and suggestions. I have achieved what I
wanted by just creating HTML comments around the text to remove and
removing that instead, as follows:

$data =~ s/<!-- start-top -->.+?<!-- end-top -->//smg;

The article at http://tinyurl.com/64uvzgp set me on the right track.

Rob