sed html tags

[An]

unfortunately not... see:

# cat file
<span xxxx> 111 </span> 2222 <span yyyy> 3333 </span>

# sed -e 's/<\/?span[^>]*>//g' file
<span xxxx> 111 </span> 2222 <span yyyy> 3333 </span>

(...nothing happens, the file is returned with no substitutions done)


I could do it with a perl script, which basically does what i would expect
sed would do:

# cat pscript.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$text = "<span xxxx> 111 </span>   2222 <span yyyy> 3333 </span> <span xxxx>
111 </span>    2222    <span yyyy> 3333 </span>";
$text =~ s/<span x[^>]*>[^\(<\/span>\)]*[\s]*<\/span>[\s]*//g;
print $text . "\n"

# perl pscript.pl
2222 <span yyyy> 3333 </span> 2222    <span yyyy> 3333 </span>

" <span xxx> ..... </span> " is removed... but i don't seem to be able to do
it with sed... : (


Im on fedora c9, maybe that's the problem ?

siran


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Paul A. Procacci <pprocacci at datapipe.com>wrote:

> siran wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have the string
>>
>> <span xxxx> 111 </span> 2222 <span yyyy> 3333 </span>
>>
>> And i wish to use sed to strip *only* the "<span xxxx>" tag and its
>> contents... is this possible ? I'm trying this expression, but it
>> doesn't work...
>>
>> sed 's/<span xxxx[^\(</span>\)]+<\/span>//g' file
>>
>> is there anything like it ?
>>
>> I would like to obtain
>>
>> 2222
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope someone can help,
>>
>> thank you,
>>
>> siran
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> sed -E 's/<\/?span[^>]*>//g'
>
> Myabe that's what you want?
>