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# 1  
Old 10-18-2010
sed to parse html
Hello,
I have a html file like this :

<html>
...
...
...
<table>
.......
......
</table>
<table name = "hi">
......
.....
...
</table>
<h1> Welcome </h1>
.......
......
</html>

I only need to take out the text that is between <table name = "hi" > and the corresponding </table>. I need to delete the rest. How do I do that?

I got to the <table name = "hi"> and I deleted lines before that, but I am not able to get to the corresponding </table> as there could be multiple </table> statements.

Please help.


Thanks,
Prasanna
# 2  
Old 10-18-2010
Try:
Code:
sed '/<table name = "hi">/,/<\/table>/!d' infile

# 3  
Old 10-18-2010
Thanks a lot.

Is the regex not greedy? Would it not match the last </table> that it sees, if there are other table tags below our </table>


Thanks,
Prasanna
# 4  
Old 10-18-2010
Might as well make it tab separated text, too, so you can excel/access import it. Smilie
# 5  
Old 10-18-2010
Hi no it is not greedy...
# 6  
Old 10-18-2010
Thanks a lot.
# 7  
Old 10-18-2010
You can import html but it is amazingly slow!

---------- Post updated at 04:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:48 PM ----------

Beware some old access do not know how to properly honor CSV, so tab sep txt is the winner!
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