regex help

[Paul]

hi,

i am trying to find a specific word in several html pages, that is _not_
italic, which means not in any case bordered by an <i>-tag.

e.g.

match:
<b><i>word</i></b>
<i><b><span>wor d</span></b></i>
<i>word</i>

non-match:
word
<b>word</b>

i don't really know how to meet this condition, so your help would be
very appreciated.

thank you,
Paul

[Jürgen Exner]

Re: regex help

Paul wrote:[color=blue]
> i am trying to find a specific word in several html pages, that is
> _not_ italic, which means not in any case bordered by an <i>-tag.
>
> e.g.
>
> match:
> <b><i>word</i></b>
> <i><b><span>wor d</span></b></i>
> <i>word</i>
>
> non-match:
> word
> <b>word</b>
>
> i don't really know how to meet this condition, so your help would be
> very appreciated.[/color]

Congratulations . You just re-discovered that regular expressions are not the
right tool for parsing HTML.
Solution: Use a proper HTML parser like HTML::Parser or one of its cousins
and just define a callback function for the <i> tag.

jue