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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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html::elementraw

HTML::ElementRaw(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     HTML::ElementRaw(3pm)

NAME

       HTML::ElementRaw - Perl extension for HTML::Element(3).

SYNOPSIS

	 use HTML::ElementRaw;
	 $er = new HTML::ElementRaw;
	 $text = '<p>I would like this &nbsp; HTML to not be encoded</p>';
	 $er->push_content($text);
	 $h = new HTML::Element 'h2';
	 $h->push_content($er);
	 # Now $text will appear as you typed it, non-escaped,
	 # embedded in the HTML produced by $h.
	 print $h->as_HTML;

DESCRIPTION

       Provides a way to graft raw HTML strings into your HTML::Element(3) structures.	Since they represent raw text, these can only be leaves in
       your HTML element tree.	The only methods that are of any real use in this degenerate element are push_content() and as_HTML().	The
       push_content() method will simply prepend the provided text to the current content.  If you happen to pass an HTML::element to
       push_content, the output of the as_HTML() method in that element will be prepended.

REQUIRES

       HTML::Element(3)

AUTHOR

       Matthew P. Sisk, <sisk@mojotoad.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Matthew P. Sisk.  All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged. This program is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::Element(3), HTML::ElementSuper(3), HTML::Element::Glob(3), HTML::ElementTable(3), perl(1).

perl v5.10.1							    2010-06-09						     HTML::ElementRaw(3pm)
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