Re: matching n'th pattern...

by pk <pk@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 6, 2008 at 08:46 PM

pk wrote:

> With the same input format you show, and a bit of extra work:
> 
> $ echo '<html>foo<li>A<br></li><li><b>B</b></li><li>C</li>bar</html>' |
\
> awk -F '</li>' '{for(i=1;i<NF;i++){gsub(/^.*<li>/,"",$i);print $i}}'
> A<br>
> <b>B</b>
> C

Just to be clear, this of course produces a fourth field (not shown above,
since it's not relevant), which you can see by including the NF'th field
in
the loop:

$ echo '<html>foo<li>A<br></li><li><b>B</b></li><li>C</li>bar</html>' | \
awk -F '</li>' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){gsub(/^.*<li>/,"",$i);print $i}}'
A<br>
<b>B</b>
C
bar</html>

-- 
All the commands are tested with bash and GNU tools, so they may use
nonstandard features. I try to mention when something is nonstandard (if
I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.

13 Posts in Topic:

matching n'th pattern...

tomekl <tomek@[EMAIL P

2008-04-06 08:56:07

Re: matching n'th pattern...

gazelle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-06 16:17:02

Re: matching n'th pattern...

tomekl <tomek@[EMAIL P

2008-04-06 09:23:23

Re: matching n'th pattern...

pk <pk@[EMAIL PROTECTE