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# 8  
Old 05-13-2012
I don't see any difference here:
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like Gary Oldman, not Gary Oldman
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# 9  
Old 05-13-2012
Meanwhile I edited my reply.
# 10  
Old 05-13-2012
Code:
perl -ln0e 'while (/>([^<]+)/g) {$x=$1;$x=~s/ +/ /;print "$x"}' file

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# 11  
Old 05-13-2012
bartus11, It's works perfectly, thank you!

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Anyone knows it in awk?
# 12  
Old 05-13-2012
Something like this?
Code:
awk '$0=$2' RS=\< FS=\> infile

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# 13  
Old 05-13-2012
Yes, it's working too, thank you!
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