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Old 04-10-2012
Perl: Question about stripping tags
hey 1 more question, how do you strip tags like <p></p> from output of xml with perl?

i already strip the CDATA but the annoying <p></p> still there
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 04-10-2012 at 08:04 AM.. Reason: Title change
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Old 04-10-2012
Code:
[user@cygwin ~]$ cat input
<note>
    <to>John</to>
    <from>Jack</from>
    <heading>Hello</heading>
    <body>Howdy</body>
</note>
[user@cygwin ~]$ perl -pe 's/<.+?>//g' input

    John
    Jack
    Hello
    Howdy

[user@cygwin ~]$

If you want more accurate solutions, please post a sample input file and desired output.
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Old 04-10-2012
lets see, for example

Code:
<title>NICK</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks alot for helping.</p>]]>
<date>today</date>
<link>hi</link>

for my program i output
Code:
----------------------------------------------------------
Title:         Nick
date:          today
link:           hi
<p>Thanks alot for helping</p>

the" Description: "is gone and there's <p></p>
the "Description: " disappear i assume it's because of the tags.
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