Make sure you read the documentation very well, declare the variables and experiment starting with the examples given. It's not easy but there is a logic to it in the end. The engine sometimes gets confused and it's a good idea to restart once in a while when practicing. Stuff like "[~<]" will never work, but "[^<]" maybe. > >Hi guys, > >I thought I knew grep pretty well but i can't get it working! > >im trying to convert html tables to tab files... > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> ><TITLE> ></TITLE> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ><META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY> > >with these script samples... to strip the garbage tags > > put replacetext(y,"^<!doctype.+>$",empty) into y > put replacetext(y,"<META.+>$","") into y > put replacetext(y,"<FONT.*>",empty) into y > >none of these worked! > > put replacetext(y,"<!doctype.+>",empty) into y > >will delete the whole document and with a $ sign at the end will not find >the string! > >in all cases, if I remove the $, ALL the text after the first tag found is >deleted down to the end of the document! > >adding the exclusion of [~<] didn't have an effect... (is it supported at >all?) > >I am sure that there is not characters between the beginning or end of the >line and the tag start or end. > >casesensitive global didn't change anything. > >i read the manual, and the xworlds tutorial pages but none helped... > >i know that grep changes from one app to another but this is out of my >logic... > >thanks for any help from anyone! >Xavier > > >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm >Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. > >. Regards, Andu _______________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
