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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (295)	2/15/2002 11:19:43 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 484

Well I guess you either edit, complicate your logic a lot or just plain give up :) I guess you could search for classes with closures like s/<head>[^[</head>]]*[</head>]//g and the like if it would let you, and go past line ends, or try to use Perl 6 and its new inclusive regex simplification searches (Damien Conway lectures). Perl 6 improves general class selection patterns for regex. Past line ends? uhh ... Class selection, and 'tween-thingie inclusion/exclusion needs improvement in sed/awk/perl/c. Regex bogs as different closures get tried on each line in recursive loops. I wrote an HTML stripper in basic that did not need recursin and chopped lines to so many columns selectable, and did not split words. It used rules and about seventy lines of code. A tad complex to write but it worked. Advantage is the stripper had the intelligence to look ahead and drop code between containers that was not display text. I geuss you could use Perl and eat everything between certain containers and not others. Simpler that way. Gimme ten thousand and I will write it for you. EC<:-}