Re: [Slashcode-development] purpose of code fragment in admin.pl ?

[chromatic <chr...@wg...>]

On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:47, i18n wrote:

> 1 while ($story_content =~ m|<A(.*?)>(.*?)</A>|sgi) {
> 2                my($url, $label) = ($1, $2);
> 3                $label =~ s/(\S{30})/$1 /g;
> 4                $related_links .= "<LI><A$url>$label</A></LI>\n" unless
> $label eq "[?]";

> Does anybody have an improved Regex for the questionable line 3, or is it
> even necessary at all? Can I just comment it out?

A better approach would be to use a real HTML parser that can distinguish 
between tags and content.

*insert handwaving*,
-- c