sara.samsara@gmail.com wrote:
> ################ TEXT FILE ##################
> <td class="PhorumTableRowAlt thread"  style="padding-left: 0px">
>         
>             <a href="http://mysite.com/link/here_goes?id=239">LINK</a>
> 
>     &nbsp;<span class="PhorumNewFlag"></span></td>
> 
>  <td class="PhorumTableRowAlt" nowrap="nowrap" width="150">
>   <a href="http://mysite.com/link/here_goes?id=239">LINK</a> </td>
>     <td class="PhorumTableRowAlt PhorumSmallFont" nowrap="nowrap" width="150">06/11/2007 12:29AM
>  </td>
> </tr>
> ############################################
> 
> The text file contains hundreds of tds structure like above. All I need is to extract the td with class "PhorumTableRowAlt thread". I have tried every possible option, but finally I am coming to you for any Regex for it? TIA.
> 
> HERE IS WHAT I AM DOING:
> 
> pen(TXT, "links.txt") or die "Unable to open file";
> my @links = <TXT>;
> close (TXT);
> foreach my $link(@links) {
> if ($link =~ m|<td class="PhorumTableRow thread" style="padding-left: 0px">(.*?)</td>|gsi) {
> print "$1";}
> }
> 
> 
> 
> But NOTHING coming up. No results.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Sara.
> 

Parsing HTML with regexes is just a bad idea. Try a module from CPAN,
I've had good luck with HTML::TokeParser::Simple,

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::TokeParser::Simple

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