>
> Presumably, you're concerned only with the capture group (containing
> the genre), so rewrite the expression along the following lines to
> avoid the ambiguous/excessive backtracking:
>
> p5c.compile("<span\\s+class=\"nametext\">[^<]*</span><br>[^<]*<font[^>]*>"+
> "<strong>([^<]+)</strong></font>",
> Perl5Compiler.SINGLELINE_MASK);
>
Yes that's correct. This pattern prevented the looping it just didn't match
for that particular page. I'll have to digest this pattern a bit more in my
head :o)
