Subject: Re: extracting data from html files
From: Bob Crosby (rcrosby@alaska.net)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 10:58:17 AKDT
Thanks, Christopher,
That works great. It returns just what I asked for. Now I'm wondering if
sed can be used to do even more sophisticated editing? For example, given
a bunch of files, each containing multiple blocks of text like the following:
<TD width="300" valign="top"><FONT class=Price>$48.00</FONT><BR>
<a href="JavaScript: funcname('../doit.asp', '', '', '',
'100');">Widgetname</a><BR>
Product_name<BR>
Product_ID<BR>
could I generate a csv file consisting of lines containing
Price,Widgetname,Product_name,Product_ID?
>* Bob Crosby <rcrosby@alaska.net> [2002-Jun-27 08:26 AKDT]:
> > What I'd like to do is step through each file searching for a particular
> > string, then whenever a match is found, write the remainder of the line
> > where it is found, to another file.
>
>Sound like:
>
> $ grep 'string' *.html > string_match
>
>might be the ticket. This will give you each line that contains the
>string. If you really want to put only the remainder of the line in the
>file you might pipe this through sed:
>
> $ grep 'string' *.html | sed 's/.*string\(.*\)$/\1/' > string_match
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