05-28-2007
Copying Text between two unique text patterns
Dear Colleagues:
I have .rtf files of a collection of newspaper articles. Each newspaper article starts with a variation of the phrase "Document * of 20" and is separated from the next article with the character string "==================="
I would like to be able to take the text composing each news article from between these two patterns and dump them into separate, uniquely named files. I've been playing around with SED, grep, cut and csplit, but nothing seems to be working. I have the regular expressions developed to capture the two lines "Document * of 20" and "--------" independently, but I can't figure out how to capture and play with the text between the two lines. I hope you can help.
Yours,
Simon J. Kiss
Queen's University
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
news::scan::article
News::Scan::Article(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation News::Scan::Article(3pm)
NAME
News::Scan::Article - collect information about news articles
SYNOPSIS
use News::Scan::Article;
my $art = News::Scan::Article->new( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN );
DESCRIPTION
This module provides a derived class of "Mail::Internet" whose objects are suitable for digesting Usenet news articles.
CONSTRUCTOR
new ( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN-OBJ )
The "ARG" and "OPTIONS" parameters are identical to those required by "Mail::Internet", except "ARG" is required. See Mail::Internet.
The "SCAN" parameter should be a "News::Scan" object. See News::Scan.
If the article falls into the period of interest for "SCAN", the object is returned, else "undef".
METHODS
group ( [ SCAN-OBJ ] )
Sets or returns an object's group depending on whether "SCAN-OBJ" is present.
author
Returns the article's author represented as a "Mail::Address" object.
message_id
Returns the article's Message-ID.
subject
Returns the article's subject.
newsgroups
Returns the list of newsgroups this article was posted to.
size
Returns the size of this article in bytes.
header_size
Returns the size of this article's header in bytes.
header_lines
Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by headers.
body_size
Returns the size of this article's body in bytes.
body_lines
Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the body.
orig_size
Returns the size of this article's original content in bytes. See "QuoteRE" in News::Scan.
orig_lines
Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by original content. Keep in mind that original content is a subset of the body.
sig_size
Returns the size of this article'ss signature in bytes.
sig_lines
Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the signature.
SEE ALSO
News::Scan, Mail::Internet, Mail::Address
AUTHOR
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.10.1 2000-08-09 News::Scan::Article(3pm)