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To: Johan Petersson <kjep@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing unwanted text
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Johan Petersson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>    I am trying to create a filter that removes (or
> filters out) part of a text. The idea would be
> something like this:
>
> lynx -dump URL | (filter goes here) > textfile
>
> The part of the downloaded text that I want to keep
> always begins and ends with the same phrases (though
> the starting and ending phrases are not the same),
> and I want to keep all the lines in between but not
> those before and after. I've tried to work a bit with
> grep and diff, but I couldn't get i working.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?
>
> Best regards
> Johan
>
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use perl ;-)
can u send example of the file and what needs to stay? ;-)
alex



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