Extracting test from html...

[loosecannon1]

Hi all -

I'm having difficulties extracting the src attribute and value, for image tags, from an html page.

I looked at using substr(), but the OFFSET and LENGTH won't be consistent and I'm not knowledgeable with regexs, so I'm kinda lost...

Basically, how can I extract and store: src="/images/bulletins/customer.bmp"
from the following snippet:

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Thank for the help.

If I'm unclear on anything please let me know.

<p align=&quot;left&quot;>Some paragraph text...<img alt=&quot;Some Title&quot; src=&quot;/images/bulletins/customer.bmp&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;></p>

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[loosecannon1]

Following is the correct snippet...


Basically, how can I extract and store: src=&quot;/images/bulletins/customer.bmp&quot;,
from the following snippet, in a variable:

<!-- CODE SNIPPET -->

<p align=&quot;left&quot;>Some paragraph text...<img alt=&quot;Some Title&quot; src=&quot;/images/bulletins/customer.bmp&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;></p>

<!-- END CODE SNIPPET -->

Thanks

PS Sure would be nice if we could edit our post after we submited it!

 

[PaulTEG]

You could use preview post.

There's gotta be a simpler way with a regex, but if you still want to try substr, you can use the index function - like instr in VB

HTH ;P

 

[goBoating]

#!perl
$str = qq('<p align=&quot;left&quot;>Some paragraph text...
	<img alt=&quot;Some Title&quot; 
	src=&quot;/images/bulletins/customer1.bmp&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;>
	more text 
	<img alt=&quot;another Title&quot; 
	src=&quot;/images/bulletins/customer2.bmp&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;></p>);
	
while ($str =~ /<img.*?src=&quot;(.*?)&quot;.*?>/gis)
    {
    print &quot;Found $1\n&quot;;
    }

'hope this helps

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[loosecannon1]

Thanks goBoating that worked!