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Old 06-27-2010
Extracting text between two strings

Hi,

I've looked at a few existing posts on this, but they don't seem to work for my inputs.

I have a text file where I want to extract all the text between two strings, every time that occurs.

Eg my input file is

Anna said that she would fetch the bucket.
Anna and Ben moved the bucket.
I would not like Anna to do it.


I was expecting that

Code:
sed -n '/Anna/,/would/p' inputfile > outputfile

would give me

said that she
and Ben moved the bucket.
I

But instead I get back

Anna said that she would fetch the bucket.
Anna and Ben moved the bucket.
I would not like Anna to do it.

What am I missing?

Thanks
 

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AuMakeElementExportBucket(3)				     Library Functions Manual				      AuMakeElementExportBucket(3)

Name
       AuMakeElementExportBucket - initialize an ExportBucket element

Synopsis
       #include <audio/audiolib.h>

       AuMakeElementExportBucket(element, input, bucket, num_samples, offset, num_actions, actions)
	   AuElement *element; /* RETURN */
	   unsigned short input;
	   AuBucketID bucket;
	   AuUint32 num_samples;
	   AuInt32 offset;
	   int num_actions;
	   AuElementAction *actions;

Arguments
       element	 Returns the initialized element.

       input	 Specifies the index of the element to supply the audio data to this element.

       bucket	 Specifies the ID of the bucket to write the audio data to.

       num_samples
		 Specifies the number of samples to write to the bucket.

       offset	 Specifies the offset into the bucket to begin writing at.

       num_actions
		 Specifies the number of actions in actions.

       actions	 Specifies  the list of actions to associate with this element.  Entries in this list can be initialized with AuMakeChangeStateAc-
		 tion, AuMakeSendNotifyAction, and AuMakeNoopAction.  May be NULL.

Description
       AuMakeElementExportBucket sets the type member of element to AuElementTypeExportBucket and initializes the exportbucket member  of  element
       with the remaining arguments.

       AuMakeElementExportBucket is implemented as a macro.

See Also
       AuMakeElementAddConstant, AuMakeElementBundle, AuMakeElementExportClient, AuMakeElementExportDevice, AuMakeElementExportMonitor, AuMakeEle-
       mentImportBucket, AuMakeElementImportClient, AuMakeElementImportDevice, AuMakeElementImportWaveForm,  AuMakeElementMultiplyConstant,  AuMa-
       keElementSum.

       audiolib - Network Audio System C Language Interface

audiolib - element initialization				       1.9.3					      AuMakeElementExportBucket(3)
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