Regexp & PERL Newbie

[joe]

I'm a regexp and PERL newbie, and I'm making a site scrapper.

So, I have this code:

$agent->{content} =~ m!<b>UD\: </b>\s+?(\w+?)</td>!;

I'm trying to scrape the 1.98-SE out the following:

<td>
<b>UD: </b>

1.98-SE
</td>

What have I done wrong?

I'm pretty sure once I see how it's done, I'll understand it.

Thanks!

 

[Juicify]

You're trying to match 1.98-SE with \w+, \w is letters and digits only. And you forgot the whitespace after it.
You must also make sure you get what's inside (), the whole string is $0, the first () is $1 etc.
So this is what RegexBuddy: Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use and Save Regular Expression gave me in perl

if ($subject =~ m!<b>UD\: </b>\s+?([\w.-]+?)\s+</td>!) {
	$result = $1;
}

 

[joe]

ah, okay. Thanks.