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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=603121018-25032004>It
looks like you already have your answer but since my friend replied I figured I
would forward it on. -Cody</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-----Original
Message-----</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>From: Paul</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>$string =~
s\(<b>|</b>)\\;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>FYI -</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Normally those
backslashes would be forward slashes, but since his</FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>search string contains
forward slashes, you can use another symbol to</FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>keep perl from getting
confused. For instance, I could have wrote</FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>s*(<b>|</b>)** instead
and it would have meant the same thing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Matthew John Darnell
[mailto:mdarnell@servpac.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:48
PM<BR><B>To:</B> luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [luau] Perl
String Question<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aloha,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I have a string "<b>Yo ho ho and a
bottle of rum</b>" is there an elegant way to eliminate the '<b>'
& '</b>'?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would also need to return
nothing for the string "<b></b>"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could hack something up, but I am thinking
it could be accomplished in one line of code. I am sure there is more
than one way to do it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As you probably guessed, I am parsing a web
page.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Matt</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>