Problem with regular Expression

[vspriya]

Hi,

Using perl regular expression i need to read the text between a xml tag. like <title>this is test</title>. I used, below code for the same.

$file_content =~ m/<title.*>(.*)<\/title>/g;
$pageTitle = $1;

Its working fine if we have text only inside the tag. But its not working for the below tags.

<title> House
hold Water Using Products </title>

<title> House <br/>
hold Water Using Products </title>

<title> <bold>House hold Water Using Products </bold></title>

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks in advance,
Priya

[fristi]

Hi,

The . doesn't match new line chars, you need to add the modifier s
or change the expression:

$file_content =~ m/<title.*?>(\s*.*?\n?)<\/title>/g;

Untested, but it should work

[dowhile]

Try with:

$file_content =~ m/<title.*?>(.*?)<\/title>/gsi;

s - single inline, "." can represent newlines
i - ignore case

I've added "?" on ".*" since regex in perl are greedy.