[thelist] Perl Regex Dummy needs help
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Mon Oct 20 10:35:40 CDT 2003
Luther, Ron wrote:
> How can I change the code below to get my $aa variable to output
> whatever text appears between the "<BELNR>" and "</BELNR>" tags
> in the XML file I am reading in?
> $aa = /<BELNR>($.)<\/BELNR>/;
I think what you're looking for is:
$aa = $1 if /<BELNR\>([^<]*)<\/BELNR>/;
Let me know if that doesn't work :-)
However -- are there no Perl XML modules? Seems like just getting
the value of an XPATH expression would be better (as in easier and
more precise) than regexing through it....
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