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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem using sed to match a string Post 302560984 by ldapswandog on Sunday 2nd of October 2011 05:53:13 PM
Old 10-02-2011
Not the best solution I'm sure ...
Code:
curl -s http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/southampton-tide-times.rss | grep description | sed -n "s/.*\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\)/\1/;s/\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\).*$/\1/p"

 

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xml::rss::headline::fark

XML::RSS::Headline::Fark(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     XML::RSS::Headline::Fark(3pm)

NAME

       XML::RSS::Headline::Fark - XML::RSS::Headline Example Subclass

VERSION

       2.2

SYNOPSIS

       Strip out the extra Fark redirect URL and strip out the various [blahblah] blocks in the headline

	   use XML::RSS::Feed;
	   use XML::RSS::Headline::Fark;
	   use LWP::Simple qw(get);

	   my $feed = XML::RSS::Feed->new(
	       name  => "fark",
	       url   => "http://www.pluck.com/rss/fark.rss",
	       hlobj => "XML::RSS::Headline::Fark",
	   );

	   while(1) {
	       $feed->parse(get($feed->url));
	       print $_->headline . "
" for $feed->late_breaking_news;
	       sleep($feed->delay);
	   }

       Here is the before output in #news on irc.perl.org

	   <rssbot>  - [Sad] Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer
	   <rssbot>    http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=1200026&location=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408022

       and here is the updated output

	   <rssbot>  - Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer
	   <rssbot>    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408022

MUTAITED METHOD

       $headline->item( $item )
	   Init the object for a parsed RSS item returned by XML::RSS.

AUTHOR

       Jeff Bisbee, "<jbisbee at cpan.org>"

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-xml-rss-feed at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=XML-RSS-Feed>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress
       on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	   perldoc XML::RSS::Headline::Fark

       You can also look for information at:

       * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
	   <http://annocpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

       * CPAN Ratings
	   <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/XML-RSS-Feed>

       * RT: CPAN's request tracker
	   <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-RSS-Feed>

       * Search CPAN
	   <http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Special thanks to Rocco Caputo, Martijn van Beers, Sean Burke, Prakash Kailasa and Randal Schwartz for their help, guidance, patience, and
       bug reports. Guys thanks for actually taking time to use the code and give good, honest feedback.

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright 2006 Jeff Bisbee, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       XML::RSS::Feed, XML::RSS::Headline, XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs, XML::RSS::Headline::UsePerlJournals, POE::Component::RSSAggregator

perl v5.8.8							    2006-07-17					     XML::RSS::Headline::Fark(3pm)
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