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Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,390

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Sed expression

Hi,

How would I remove anything between brackets using a sed command.  Eg:

<tr><td>foo</td> <td>bar</td></tr>

would turn into:

foo bar

I tried sed "s#\<.*\>##g" but that remove everything from the first "<" to the last ">".  How do I match the first ">"?

Thanks

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Sed expression

Would this do :

sed "s#<[^>]*>##g

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Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,390

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Re: Sed expression

Perfect, many thanks.

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magnum_opus

Member

Registered: 2005-01-26

Posts: 132

Re: Sed expression

How about this:

stuff
/*Multi line
comment */
more stuff
/*more comments*/

to

stuff
more stuff

Cerebral

Forum Fellow

From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Sed expression

from: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/20 … 04283.html

It's not a 1-liner sed, but it seems to work.

strip-c-comments.sh

#!/usr/bin/sed -f

# if no /* get next 
/\/\*/!b

# here we've got an /*, append lines until get the corresponding
# */
:x
/\*\//!{
N
bx
}

# delete /*...*/
s/\/\*.*\*\///

You'd run it like:

$ cat test.html | ./strip-c-comments.sh

magnum_opus

Member

Registered: 2005-01-26

Posts: 132

Re: Sed expression

wow.
cool thanks.
but wow.