Question

I want to find and replace (from an html page) all occurrences of src attributes in img tags. E.g., take

<img width="25" height="13" border="0" src="/images/flags/de.png">

and change the src attribute

I am currently using:

$info{content}=~s!(<img[^>]src=")(/.*)"!$http://$dest$2!gi;

where $dest is the URL I want to put.

My problem is that it finds the 1st occurrence and not the subsequent ones.

Isn’t the /g option supposed to replace all occurrences?

I’m sure the regex works for the next occurrence, because if i add my code line another time, the next occurrence is replaced.

Answer 1

Your attempt didn’t work because the greedy .* in the middle of your pattern matched everything between the first src= and the last ".

Making it non-greedy .*? would help.