SPUG: Text::Balanced broken!

[Tim Maher/CONSULTIX]

SPUGsters,

In other Christmas news, I've found what seems to be a bug in Damian
Conway's Text::Balanced::extract_tagged() function.  Although it's
supposed to handle all HTML/XML tags, the internal RE it uses to construct
the closing tag for the given opening tag doesn't allow digits, so if
you tell it to match <H1> text, it looks for a closing tag of </H>,
which it obviously won't find.

Also, I sure wish he'd show some realistic examples of the $prefix
argument in his documentation; it took me quite a while to figure out
the 
that I needed '(?s).*?(?=<H2>)' to skip any characters leading up to
the next tag!

Apparently Damian has a peculiar was of spending Christmas, because I
haven't been able to get a reply from him via Email today. 8-}
 
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