Hi Guyz,

I have a flat file with some data as below:-

I need only the data within tags <XYZ>, from each line of the file.

My desired output:-

Quote:

I want This This data is Needful

Tried a lot, but not getting the desired result.
Thnx in advance.

This might help.

Try...

awk -F '</?XYZ>' 'NF==3{print $2}' file1

Thnx Ygor.
It worked.

There is overreliance on awk. There are cases in which files are very large (log files) and using awk can literally take minutes to process such files.
The most efficient way is to use regular expressions.
Try this:

grep 'XYZ>..*</XYZ' filename

GCH
What do you think this will do?
What is the requirement?
Did you test it?
This will just list all the lines once again.
That will be garbage-in-garbage-out.

Sorry. I was doing too many things at the time. I did not paste the correct line.
This is it:

cut -d \> -f4 filename | cut -d\< -f1