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11-22-2008

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Extract a substring.

I have a shell script that uses wget to grab a bunch of html from a url.

URL_DATA=`wget -qO - "$URL1"`

I now have a string $URL_DATA that I need to pull a substring out of..say I had the following in my string

<a href="/scooby/929011567.html">Dog pictures check them out! -</a> (Silly) <a href="/shaggey/928861647.html">Vacation -</a> (boating) <a href="/gopher/928782568.html">Garden -</a> (winter)

I want to extract the URL, Title and Description throughout the string...like the following

/scooby/929011567.html
Dog pictures check them out!
(silly)

/shaggey/928861647.html
Vacation
(boating)

/gopher/928782568.html
Garden
(winter)

and keep going with that pattern as many times as it's in the string. How would I do this?

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