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# 1  
Old 02-26-2012
removing html format with sed
Hello i am trying to remove the html format from the file using sed. for example remove <p> </p>

i tried to do this : sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' test > test.t
but still i have some html format . please help if you have any suggestions

lets say this is the html file

PHP Code:
      1 tructions><![CDATA[<P class='exerciseMeta'>
      2                Write a statement that prints
      3        <font color="#006600">
      4        <b>
      5       Hello World
      6        </b>
      7        </font>
      8        to the screen.
      9        </P>
     10        
     11                       ]]></Instructions>
     12          <Instructions><![CDATA[
     13       <P class='exerciseMeta'>
     14               Write a complete program that prints <span class='code'>Hello World</span> to the screen.
     15       </P>
     16        
     17                       ]]></Instructions>
     18           <Instructions><![CDATA[
     19       <P class='exerciseMeta'>
     20              Suppose your name was <span class='code'>Alan Turing</span>.
     21               Write a statement that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
     22               first name. Do not print anything else (that includes blanks).
     23       </P>
     24        
     25                       ]]></Instructions>
     26          <Instructions><![CDATA[
     27       <P class='exerciseMeta'>
     28               Suppose your name was <span class='code'>George Gershwin</span>.
     29               Write a complete program that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
     30               first name. Do not print anything else (that includes blanks).
     31       </P> 
# 2  
Old 02-26-2012
How about this:

Code:
#! /bin/sed -f
# Delete html tags
# i.e. everything between < and >
:t
s|\(.*\)<.*>|\1|
tt
/</!b
N
bt

Output for you example text is:

Code:
 tructions>
          
           
          <![CDATA[
       
               Suppose your name was George Gershwin.
               Write a complete program that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
               first name. Do not print anything else (that includes blanks).

# 3  
Old 02-27-2012
can you please show the output what you want.
# 4  
Old 02-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by parthmittal2007
can you please show the output what you want.
the output want is :
PHP Code:
               Write a statement that prints
       
       
      Hello World
       
       
       to the screen.
       
      
     
      
              Write a complete program that prints Hello World to the screen.
      
      
      
             Suppose your name was Alan Turing.
              Write a statement that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
              first name. Do not print anything else that includes blanks.
      
      
       
              Suppose your name was George Gershwin.
              Write a complete program that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
              first name. Do not print anything else that includes blanks. 

i also tried doing this but it doesnt work
sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed 's/![^!]*!//g' | head test > test.t1
# 5  
Old 02-27-2012
Code:
perl -pe 's/\s*[><\[\]].*[><\[\]]\s*//g' inputfile

# 6  
Old 02-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by balajesuri
Code:
perl -pe 's/\s*[><\[\]].*[><\[\]]\s*//g' inputfile

Thanks it works but how can i do that in sed
# 7  
Old 02-27-2012
using awk, works for your example data

Code:
$ nawk -F"[<>]" '{for(i=1;i<=NF && i%2!=0;i++){gsub("[\\\])(]","",$i);print $i}}' test.txt                                                          
              Write a statement that prints
      
      
     Hello World
      
      
      to the screen.
      
       
                      
         
      
              Write a complete program that prints 
      
       
                      
          
      
             Suppose your name was 
              Write a statement that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
              first name. Do not print anything else that includes blanks.
      
       
                      
         
      
              Suppose your name was 
              Write a complete program that would print your last name, followed by a comma, followed by your
              first name. Do not print anything else that includes blanks.
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