Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:29:17 -0700 From: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> To: An <anmichel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed html tags Message-ID: <20080828142917.A16543@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <db2611860808281204ve41eb7dj3ec3d2c6b516dea2@mail.gmail.com>; from anmichel@gmail.com on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:04:22PM -0400 References: <41baaeae-0c1d-4a73-9540-8049b837261c@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <48B356BE.3080501@datapipe.com> <db2611860808252119g25adf379wf7b5825bbd4cd694@mail.gmail.com> <48B39A4E.1@gmail.com> <db2611860808260434l2a3fe744y5e94c46d581bc25a@mail.gmail.com> <20080828094956.A1175@eskimo.com> <db2611860808281204ve41eb7dj3ec3d2c6b516dea2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:04:22PM -0400, An wrote: > yes, it does work perfectly with the example I gave... the actual file > is some like > > ... <span xxxx> 111 <span www> 1111no </span> </span> 2222 <span yyy> > 3333 </span> 5555 <span yyy> 6666 </span> ... > > > your command only returns ]# sed 's/\(<span > .*>.*<\/span>\)\(.*\)\(<span .*>.*<\/span>\)/\2/' file > > 5555 > > > I wish to rip all <span xxx> .* </span> and obtain If you wish to rip out all "<span xxx> .* </span>" then the output would be: 2222 5555 If that is what you want, then try the following: sed 's/<span [a-z]*>[ 0-9a-z<>]*<\/span>//g; s/<\/span>//g' But if Perl is already doing the job for you, I think this can be put to rest. regards, joseph > ... 2222 <span yyy> 3333 </span> 5555 <span yyy> 6666 </span>... > > > i think sed should be able to do it, but the operator [ ^ ( ) ]* is > not behaving as i think it would... perl does it alright, though : s <snip>
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