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Asked: 2026-06-17T06:24:06+00:00

My question looks like some other questions in Stackoverflow, but i did not find

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My question looks like some other questions in Stackoverflow, but i did not find exacly what I was looking for.

I need to retrive a whole phrase that contains a specific word. This phrase is also between “>” and “<“.

For example:

text:
 "<div>bla bla bla</div><div>blu blu GOLD blu</div><form> bla bla...."

What I need is:
 blu blu GOLD blu

I’m trying to do that in Perl. What I have until now is: 

$specific_word = GOLD;
while ($var=~/[>]?(?<phrase>(.*?)\Q$specific_word\E(.*?))</ig) {
   script.....
}

What I get with this regex, given the example above, is:
<div>bla bla bla</div><div>blu blu GOLD blu

How do I do to find the first “>” before my specific word, and not the first “>” of the entire text?

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  1. Editorial Team

    HTML::TreeBuilder is a better way to parse HTML in Perl.

    But to answer the question, you probably want to match /[^>]*${specific_word}[^<]*/g, which basically says that > is not on the left hand side and < is not on the right hand side of the phrase.

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