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Top Forums Programming find & Replace text using two non-unique delimiters. Post 303013820 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 28th of February 2018 07:18:53 PM
Old 02-28-2018
When trying to match the end of a tag with its start, you need to look for the entire tag in a single search. Since there are several tags on the line, the way you are searching for the end tag may well find a > that comes before <garbage within the text string that you are searching.

To match the string starting with <garbage and ending with the closest matching > after that, try matching using the single BRE or ERE <garbage[^>]*>.
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Parser::Style::Stream(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Parser::Style::Stream(3)

NAME
XML::Parser::Style::Stream - Stream style for XML::Parser SYNOPSIS
use XML::Parser; my $p = XML::Parser->new(Style => 'Stream', Pkg => 'MySubs'); $p->parsefile('foo.xml'); { package MySubs; sub StartTag { my ($e, $name) = @_; # do something with start tags } sub EndTag { my ($e, $name) = @_; # do something with end tags } sub Characters { my ($e, $data) = @_; # do something with text nodes } } DESCRIPTION
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