Thank you very much for all the great help I received earlier on extracting
numbers from text. There is only one thing I forgot about:
Some of the files have HTML headers and footers. I don't want any data
inside HTML brackets. I tried:
s/<*>//g;
I don't understand why this doesn't work. I actually just need s/<*\d*>//g
because the other expressions are automatically taken care of by the
expressions that delete all text. Why doesn't the above work for removing
html tags? I have several perl books and none say the character "<" is
reserved. "\<" doesn't work either.
Thanks for any help. (Actually, thanks for writing my program for me;
although I'm trying hard to do it myself.) ;-)
Gregg R. Allen
EMC 2
Layered Product Engineering
62 TW Alexander Dr
Research Triangle Park, NC. 27709
Phone: 919.248.5859
Blessed are they who expect nothing,
for they shall not be disappointed.
F. Nietzsche
