SPUG: Problems with a regex

[Mark Yocom]

...though I would generally recommend against using regexen to parse
(X?HT|X)ML documents.  It's very difficult (and indeed, sometimes
impossible) to get right.  HTML::Parser and/or the various XML modules
may be better suited for this sort of work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Maher/CONSULTIX [mailto:tim at consultix-inc.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: Brittingham, John
> Cc: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: SPUG: Problems with a regex
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:47:26PM -0700, Brittingham, John wrote:
> > 
> > Having trouble replacing the following string:
> <!DOCTYPE CCML3 PUBLIC > "-//ATT//dtd ccml3//EN" []>
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> 
> 
> Looks like a good place to use an alternate delimiter (like |)
> and the quoting metacharacters, \Q\E, to automatically
> backslash all the appropriate stuff:
> 
> s|\Q<!DOCTYPE CCML3 PUBLIC > "-//ATT//dtd ccml3//EN" []>\E|WHATEVER|;
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