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Old 06-11-2011
Tools Html parsing - get line after specific string till a point
Hi all Smilie
It sounds complex, for example
I want to find the whole html file (there are 5 entries of this string and I need to get all of them) for the string
"<td class="contentheading" width="100%">", get the next line from it only till the point that says "</td>", plus removing \t (tabs)

Thanks for any help, I think this sounds challenging, isn't it? Smilie
# 2  
Old 06-11-2011
Post sample input and desired output please.
# 3  
Old 06-11-2011
Example input:
Code:
<p class="day">11</p><p class="year">2011</p></td><td class="spacer_right" style="width:100%;">
<table class="contentpaneopen">
<tr>
        <td class="contentheading" width="100%">
                    Hello this is what I want            </td>
    
    
        <td align="right" width="100%" class="buttonheading">

Desired output:
Code:
Hello this is what I want

Plus, keep in mind that there might be more than one matches for the string "<td class="contentheading" width="100%">" and I need to get all of them
# 4  
Old 06-11-2011
Try:
Code:
perl -ln0e 'while(/<td class="contentheading" width="100%">\n(.*)/g){$x=$1;$x=~s/\t//g;$x=~s/<\/td>//;print $x}' file

Last edited by bartus11; 06-11-2011 at 05:20 PM.. Reason: Updated to search for multiple occurences...
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# 5  
Old 06-11-2011
Thanks Smilie Smilie it works perfect, but it just searches for the first match, I mentioned that more than one matches can exist !
For example, the file could be
Code:
<p class="day">11</p><p class="year">2011</p></td><td class="spacer_right" style="width:100%;"> <table 
class="contentpaneopen"> <tr>         <td class="contentheading" width="100%">                     
             Hello this is what I want           </td>                   <td align="right" width="100%" class="buttonheading">
<p class="day">11</p><p class="year">2011</p></td><td class="spacer_right" style="width:100%;"> <table 
class="contentpaneopen"> <tr>         <td class="contentheading" width="100%">                     
               I also need this!!!            </td>           
        <td align="right" width="100%" class="buttonheading">

And the desired output would be:
Code:
Hello this is what I want
I also need this!!!

while your solution outputs only
Code:
Hello this is what I want

# 6  
Old 06-11-2011
Check out the updated code Smilie
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# 7  
Old 06-11-2011
Exactly!
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