In that case you'd need to use a program that is not line-oriented.
Something like
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import re, sys
ifd = open(sys.argv[1],'r')
pat = re.compile( r'\wwidth"51"\w+height="20"', re.DOTALL)
ibuf = ifd.read()
ifd.close()
obuf = pat.ub('',ibuf)
ofd = open(sys.argv[2],'w')
ofd.write( objf)
ofd.close()
(WARNING -- untested code!!) which reads the entire html file,
processes in one fell swoop, and writes it out. Line breaks are
always a pain.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >
> >> I need to strip out the string ' width="51" height="20"' from about 50
> >> HTML documents. Is there a simple way to do this with a bash/sed or
> >> perl one-liner?
> >
> >
> > Nevermind, from google'ing, I was able to fine:
> >
> > perl -pi -e 's/ width="51" height="20"//' *.html
>
> Although, there is one case this doesn't work for. In some of the HTML files, the
> text I'm
> looking to strip is split over 2 lines like:
>
> <a href="someurl"><img src="button.gif" border="0" width="51"
> height="20"></a>
>
> How would I strip the text in this case?
>
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