An wrote: > 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"
$text =~ s#<span xxxx>.*?</span>\s*##g; > # 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... : ( regexps in sed are greedy and, sadly, you can't use *? as quantifier. try the following (adding characters that can be inside your 'xxxx' tags, of course): sed 's#<span xxxx>[ a-zA-Z0-9]*</span>[ ]*##g' > Im on fedora c9, maybe that's the problem ? > > siran > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Paul A. Procacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> >>> >> sed -E 's/<\/?span[^>]*>//g' >> >> Myabe that's what you want? >> HTH, Yuri _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
