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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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;
Try perl -e '$x = "<<<<>x"; $x =~ s/<*>//g; print $x . "\n"'
It prints out "x".
Your regex will match strings like <>, <<>, <<<<<<<>. (i.e. multiple
less-thans followed by a greater-than) because the * applies to the
less-than symbol immediately before it.
Try s/<.*>//g - the . means "any character" and will eliminate a
less-than, then 0 or more characters, then a greater than.
- --Curtis
> 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.) ;-)
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