a regexp question

[John Chung]

~sdpm~

Howdy

I want to do a simple substitution in html files where I 
can append some string to URL's (inside anchor tag).

So the entire code is simply something like:

----------------------------------------------------------

#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<>) {
	s/href="([^"])+"/appendit($1)/eg;
	print $_;
}

sub appendit {
	my $url = shift;
	$url .= "?sid=blahblah";
	return $url;	
}

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I noticed that the $1, instead of it being the entire URL
inside the anchor tag (between <a href=" and  ">), is
usually just the last letter of that URL.

I'm confused.  Could someone help me so that I can just
take the whole URL inside the anchor tag and pass it or
refer to it?

Many thanks,

John Chung
The Scripps Research Institute



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