Regex Help Needed (Perl)

Discussion in 'Programming' started by america2, Aug 20, 2006.

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    I'm trying to parse through a web page. The first thing I care about is an attribute of a tag that says: id=f6

    I want to kill off everything from the beginning of the string up until f6.
    I have the web page contained in $_

    Here is my expression: $_ =~ s/.*?f6//;

    When I print $_ I am getting the entire webpage. What's wrong with my regex?
    Help! Thanks...
     
    america2, Aug 20, 2006 IP
  2. brandnewx

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    id\=(f6.*)
     
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    s/.*?f6//s
     
    blfast, Jan 26, 2007 IP
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    s/.*?(f6.*)/$1/

    Just my 0.2€, I haven't been doing Perl in a looong time...
     
    picouli, Jan 26, 2007 IP