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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Selectively Find/Replace in a file? Post 302468712 by dragin33 on Wednesday 3rd of November 2010 03:24:21 PM
Old 11-03-2010
Selectively Find/Replace in a file?
I have a file that is HTML encoded. Each line has something like this on each line..
<href=http://link.com/username.aspx>username </a> more info.. <a href=http://link.com/info1.aspx>info1</a> more code... <a href=http://link.com/info2.aspx>info2</a>

I have one goal really.. to clean up the file so that I can more easily parse this info into a PHP application. I'm more familiar with php programming then using grep/sed and such though and I thought I would try to clean it up using a bash script.

So I would like to get rid of the HTML tags and replace them with more meaningfull / cleaner info. Basically I want it to look like this..

USERNAME-username INFO-info1, info2

This would make it easy for me in php to import those values into variables and arrays. I've tried messing around with grep and sed but I can't come up with anything. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot for your help!
 

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