Re: HTML:Parser how to remove "//<![CDATA[ ... //]]>" ?

Gerwin <g.h.vandoorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
On Jan 31, 12:01 pm, "Gerwin" <g.h.vando...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I'm using HTML::Parser to strip HTML tags from my files. I noticed
how //<![cdata[ ... //]]> and the javascript between that is not
stripped. Any idea how to do this?

-Gerwin

Well i made a regex to do it:

$content =~ s/(\/\/<!\[.*\/\/]]>)//;

Is this efficient? If not, what is?

Why do you think efficiency matters?

At this point you should be concerned with effectiveness: Does it
match what it is supposed to match, no more and no less? Since I
don't know the variability of the pattern I can't tell. The fact
you are matching only one opening "[" but two closing "]" is a bit
dubious. Shouldn't the string "cdata" be checked somewhere?

Worry about efficiency when your program turns out to be slow.
If that happens, I dare say it won't be this regex that is
responsible.

Anno
.

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