Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Corona,

None of the combination you provided works with that stupid busybox version that reside on the media player to remove the </title> .... what a pain this is.

Anyhow here's some sample of input/output files and the full source code in case you are interested. The code is pretty horrific I am sure but I am not a programmer this is a hobby and I am still learning. I plan on implementing some of the new tricks I learned from you to some other part of the code to improve things further.

Here's the inputs files:

SORTEDTMP="sortedrss.list"

sortedrss.list
MovieInfo.nfo

Here's the output file (created with old/new version without the extra </title>)

jukebox.xml

And finally here's the full source code as it stands at this particular moment:

jukeboxscript

Thanks for your help/time

Snappy46

There's extra whitespace all over the place in there. <title>'s not necessarily at the beginning, and </title>'s not necessarily at the end. That messes up all of those string replacements.

How about this? It uses the set -- trick, abusing the special IFS variable to split a string into $1, $2, ... based on <> tag characters. It won't matter what's at the beginning or end.

Code:

STR="  <title>The Adjustment Bureau</title>   "

OLDIFS="$IFS" # Save for later
# Because of IFS, this will split into "   ", "title", "the adjustment bureau", ...
# and we feed those into set -- to save those into $1, $2, ...
# If you were using $1, $2, ... for commandline arguments, better save them
# somewhere else first because this will wipe them out.
#
# $STR must not have quotes around it!  We're depending on the
# shell's own argument splitting here.
IFS="<>" ; set -- $STR ; IFS="$OLDIFS"
# Get rid of the "   "
while [ "$#" -gt 0 ] && ! [ "$1" = "title" ] ; do shift ; done
# The title is now $2.
MOVIETITLE="$2"

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