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Asked: 2026-06-15T02:46:36+00:00

I am not an expert in Perl but I have written a Perl script

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I am not an expert in Perl but I have written a Perl script to parse an HTML page and filter by all href tags:

The output are as shown below:

href="?Name">Name</a>
href="?Desc">Hourly Details</a>
href="/24x7/2012/11-November/">Data
href="./00:00:00/">00:00:00/</a>
href="./01:00:00/">01:00:00/</a>
href="./02:00:00/">02:00:00/</a>
href="./03:00:00/">03:00:00/</a>
href="./04:00:00/">04:00:00/</a>
href="./05:00:00/">05:00:00/</a>
href="./06:00:00/">06:00:00/</a>
href="./07:00:00/">07:00:00/</a>
href="./08:00:00/">08:00:00/</a>
href="./09:00:00/">09:00:00/</a>
href="./10:00:00/">10:00:00/</a>
href="./11:00:00/">11:00:00/</a>
href="./12:00:00/">12:00:00/</a>
href="./13:00:00/">13:00:00/</a>
href="./14:00:00/">14:00:00/</a>
href="./15:00:00/">15:00:00/</a>
href="./16:00:00/">16:00:00/</a>
href="./17:00:00/">17:00:00/</a>
href="./18:00:00/">18:00:00/</a>
href="./19:00:00/">19:00:00/</a>
href="./20:00:00/">20:00:00/</a>
href="./21:00:00/">21:00:00/</a>
href="./22:00:00/">22:00:00/</a>
href="./23:00:00/">23:00:00/</a>

Now I want to extract values within the href tags from “00:00:00” till “23:00:00” while exclude others. The result value would be added to string having a URL:

http://x.download.com/00:00:00
------URL------------/..href../
..............................
http://x.download.com/23:00:00

However by trying the below code:

foreach (@tag) {
    if (m/href/) {
        if ($_ =~ /"\/24/ && $_ =~ /"\/[0-9]/) {
            my $href  = $_;
            my $start = index($href, "\"");
            my $end   = rindex($href, "\"");
            my $link  = substr($href, $start + 1, $end - $start - 1);
            print "Follow: " . $url . $link . "\n";

        }
    }
}

prints:

Follow: http://x.download.com/24x7/2012/11-November/

What should my regular expression be such that required objective can be achieved?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is done very simply with a regular expression, as shown in the program below. It looks for a string of digits or colons immediately following > (and so looks for the text contents of the element rather the href attribute value as yours does) and captures that string into $1.

    But I would prefer to see the problem solved from start to finish using a proper HTML parser, such as
    HTML::TreeBuilder
    or
    Mojo::DOM.

    use strict;
use warnings;

my @tag = <DATA>;

foreach (@tag) {
  next unless />([\d:]+)/;
  print "http://x.download.com/$1\n";
}

__DATA__
href="?Name">Name</a>
href="?Desc">Hourly Details</a>
href="/24x7/2012/11-November/">Data
href="./00:00:00/">00:00:00/</a>
href="./01:00:00/">01:00:00/</a>
href="./02:00:00/">02:00:00/</a>
href="./03:00:00/">03:00:00/</a>
href="./04:00:00/">04:00:00/</a>
href="./05:00:00/">05:00:00/</a>
href="./06:00:00/">06:00:00/</a>
href="./07:00:00/">07:00:00/</a>
href="./08:00:00/">08:00:00/</a>
href="./09:00:00/">09:00:00/</a>
href="./10:00:00/">10:00:00/</a>

    output

    http://x.download.com/00:00:00
http://x.download.com/01:00:00
http://x.download.com/02:00:00
http://x.download.com/03:00:00
http://x.download.com/04:00:00
http://x.download.com/05:00:00
http://x.download.com/06:00:00
http://x.download.com/07:00:00
http://x.download.com/08:00:00
http://x.download.com/09:00:00
http://x.download.com/10:00:00
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