Re: quick GREP question

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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Steven Jarvis wrote: > > I know jack about grep, though I'm planning to learn it. I *think* it's what > I want to use in this situation, but I'm open to any other options, too.Get Mastering Regular Expressions from O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-257-2). Ignore all of the discussion of Perl extensions to regex engines (it will just make you jealous ;~) since the WebCat grep is pretty basic.> > I have to format some stories with WebCat and export them to a text file, > and I need to cut some HTML tags and their contents out of stories if they > are present. > Can I call your attention to the following context which is designed specifically for your problem: http://betadoc.smithmicro.com/RemoveHTMLContext.htmlIn general, you cannot use [grep] to always strip out markup tags, due to line breaks and nesting. You really need to have a simple state machine to correctly parse nested HTML tags; if you can make certain assumptions about your tags, you can deal with it with grep, but you need to be very careful.HTHJohn-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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Steven Jarvis wrote: > > I know jack about grep, though I'm planning to learn it. I *think* it's what > I want to use in this situation, but I'm open to any other options, too.Get Mastering Regular Expressions from O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-257-2). Ignore all of the discussion of Perl extensions to regex engines (it will just make you jealous ;~) since the WebCat grep is pretty basic.> > I have to format some stories with WebCat and export them to a text file, > and I need to cut some HTML tags and their contents out of stories if they > are present. > Can I call your attention to the following context which is designed specifically for your problem: http://betadoc.smithmicro.com/RemoveHTMLContext.htmlIn general, you cannot use [grep] to always strip out markup tags, due to line breaks and nesting. You really need to have a simple state machine to correctly parse nested HTML tags; if you can make certain assumptions about your tags, you can deal with it with grep, but you need to be very careful.HTHJohn-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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