Re: Parsing HTML in Perl

[Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Frank Boumphrey wrote:

> Perhaps of interest to you perl programmers out there.
> 
> I asked one of our programmers (Gabe Schaeffer) to write a function to
> parse a malformed HTML file, prior to converting it to XHTML. Here is
> what he produced!
> 
> I've never seen an HTML file parsed with a single line of Perl RegEx
> before!

Dude, you can do this *so* much easier...

open(my $fh, "pyxhtml file.html | pyxw |") || die "Cannot pyx: $!";

then parse $fh.

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