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Old 12-21-2012
Gawk Narrowing Down Search Results
I am using GAWK to search for a specific pattern:

Code:
gawk '{IGNORECASE=1;} /<a href=/&&/\$/,/<\/a/' index.html
<a class=author href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=10&amp;amp;catAbb=sss&amp;amp;query=ps vita" title="craigslist washington, DC | all fo
r sale / wanted search &quot;ps vita&quot;">Craigslist Half Hourly Vista</a> <a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/vgd/3492907895.html" lang="en-us"
>Xbox 360 Elite   5 games (PWC) $135</a><div class="content">Hey craigslist, im selling my Xbox Elite as a Fighter Bundle. Most of the games are all fighting 
games. It comes with: Soul Calibur Soul Calibur Mortal Kombat () Dead or Alive Marvel vs Capcom A gig hard drive Wireless Controller All the Cables Im se [...
]</div></li>

The problem is that its spitting out an additional '<a </a>:
Code:
<a class=author href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=10&amp;amp;catAbb=sss&amp;amp;query=ps vita" title="craigslist washington, DC | all fo
r sale / wanted search &quot;ps vita&quot;">Craigslist Half Hourly Vista</a>

and not just:

Code:
<a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/vgd/3492907895.html" lang="en-us"
>Xbox 360 Elite   5 games (PWC) $135</a><div class="content">Hey craigslist, im selling my Xbox Elite as a Fighter Bundle. Most of the games are all fighting 
games. It comes with: Soul Calibur Soul Calibur Mortal Kombat () Dead or Alive Marvel vs Capcom A gig hard drive Wireless Controller All the Cables Im se [...

Why is it not using my specific search criteria. What thought I was telling GAWK was to look for every occurrence that contains <a href= and $ and print everything in between and ends with <\/a. So in other words I only want to print out the line that contains only those specific criteria. ???
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Old 12-21-2012
Imagining the input or output in examples does not click for me. I think you are needing to split the lines with multiple <a>...</a> first. A little preprocessing makes many problems trivial. gawk ... | gawk ...
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