Subject: Re: Help with sorting another file
From: Arthur Corliss (acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 11:42:40 AKST
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
<snip> Good explanation, David, thanks! I should point out that I tested the
line by taking the examples I had in e-mail, munging up a couple of copies of
the blocks, and putting them into a test file. Worked fine. However, having
never seen the file they come in, there's a few caveats to be aware of:
--I probably shouldn't have put the caret before '<programme', since
it may be your <programme> entries have preceding whitespace
--If you have other pertinent blocks of text that may need to be
preserved (i.e, xml body tags, non-programme blocks, etc.) then
this needs to be modified to preserve those as well.
In short, the example I provided is good for only one thing: print programme
blocks that have both start and stop times in it from a file with nothing but
programme blocks. But it can easily be modified to do much more.
The neat thing is that sed makes a great data extraction tool for XML. For
functions like this I find using validating XML parsers to be a tad overkill.
--Arthur Corliss
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