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# 1  
Old 04-25-2012
How to fetch a string between two different strings?
Hi

I am having a file with content as,
Code:
<name>usrname</name> <value>ravistej</value>
<name>pswd</name> <value>asdfgzxcv</value>
.
.
.
.
<name>abc</name> <value>xyz</value>

From this file,
i want to fetch the string present between '<value>' and '</value>' and store the values into another file.Smilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 04-25-2012 at 09:21 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 04-25-2012
Try:
Code:
sed 's!.*<value>\(.*\)</value>.*!\1!' file

# 3  
Old 04-25-2012
or
Code:
# sed 's|.*value>\(.*\)<.*|\1|' infile

# 4  
Old 04-25-2012
thank you very much
it's working fine... Smilie
if you dont mine can you explain the flow of the command... Smilie
# 5  
Old 04-25-2012
Code:
nawk -F"[><]" '{for(i=1;i<=NF-1;i++){if($i~/value/){print $(i+1)}}}' input.txt

Try with awk, if you dont have nawk
# 6  
Old 04-26-2012
How to fetch a string between two different strings
Hi Raj,

Just want to know what is the meaning of -F"[<>]". I understand that we are defining delimeter but what exactly menaing of above.

Thanks
Krsnadasa
# 7  
Old 04-26-2012
Code:
awk '/^value/{print $2}' RS=\< FS=\> infile > outfile
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