[Memphis.pm] Regexes, finding a <BR> tag and throwing into arrays.

[Brock Sides]

* Alaric Ravenhall <alaricravenhall at hotmail.com> [010417 06:52]:

> Hi all.
> Can anyone tell me of an easy way to take a string of text, parsing by a 
> <BR> tag at the end each word, and put it into an array?
> I will have something similar to this:
> 
> Ravenhall<BR>Nemesis<BR>Thulsa<BR>Imoen<BR>Tweedledum<BR>Tweedledee<BR>
> 
> I want to INCLUDE the <BR> tag in the array thusly:
> 
> 
> @names = 
> {"Ravenhall<BR>","Nemesis<BR>","Thulsa<BR>","Imoen<BR>","Tweedledum<BR>","Tweedledum<BR>"}

foreach ($string =~ m/(.+?<br>)/gi) {
   push @names, $_;
}

I'm sure there's a more elegant way, but this

@names = $string =~ m/(.+?<br>/gi/;

doesn't seem to create the list context for m//g. I'm not sure why.

-- 
Brock Sides
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