[ILUG] Gawk or sed or ?

[kevin lyda]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:51:09AM -0000, JustinMacCarthy wrote:
> If I want to parse a html file (might be badly formed ) and take out a list
> of the tags used  (unique list) and the attributes of each tag used
> (aggregate)..
> What tool would you recommend? Sed or gawk might do it, but maybe there is
> something better out there..

hate to say it but perl would be best.  alternatively use lex.

perl -ne
    'chomp;$a.=$_; END{@a=split(/(<[^>]*>)/m,$a);map {print if (/^</)} @a;}'

the above should dump out all the tags.  more then that i your job.  :)

kevin

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