On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:56:21PM +0000, John McCormac wrote:
> > I want to write a little Perl script , that opens a file a gets all values
> > for id (eg: myid) in all expressions like <a href="http://www.iol.ie"> > id="myid"> where this expression can appear over multiple lines or several
> > times on a line.
> >
> > I want to print the match to another file...
> > Anyone point me the right direction ?
>> I'm not a Perl wiz but this looks like a simple grep problem as in grep
> 'myid' filename>otherfilename.
No, it's not that simple because Justin wanted to put the myid values into
the other file, but thanks to perl, it's nearly that simple. This
perl -lne 'while (/id="(.+?)"/g) {print $1}' INFILE >OUTFILE
will do it, and I've a grudging suspicion that the while is superfluous, but
how to autosplit given the requirements is beyond me at this hour of the
night.
Regards,
Niall
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