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Old 03-20-2008
In my experience sed is not an appropriate tool to use to extract data from HTML files. Often times the HTML is poorly formed even through it may apparantly render correctly on a web browser.

It is better to use tools specifically designed to parse HTML/XHTML/XML/SGML files. Perl, Python, Ruby all have modules which support parsing such files using DOM or SAX.

Even better are XSLT processors. If you want a simple command line XSLT processor which works on UNIX I suggest you try xsltproc which comes with libxslt. If the Gnome desktop is installed on your system, libxslt is already installed.
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Old 03-20-2008
wow your reply was VERY helpful, i thank you very much for taking the time to reply. please dont take it the wrong way its just that i dont know any html and for me to research how to write a table correctly and fill it with values would have taken me a bit of time.
 
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