NO IDEA WHERE TO START

[wayne_104]

Hi I have been asked to look at a list of htm files. I have no experince whatsoever with xml files.

I need to first find files with the KZ00000002
and then pull the KZ00000002 number to txt file.

below is the two types of data in the files.

can this be done in HP -UX

CYTOLOGY
6010112596
3839/05


BIOCHEMISTRY
1002000064
KZ00000002

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

One good place to start would be putting an accurate description of the problem in the subject line so people will know what to expect when they open your message.

Assuming all htm files are in one directory:

perl -nle 'print $1 if (m{(m{(.*?)})' *htm

should do the trick.

Hope that helps.

Doug

[wayne_104]

Hi

This is the output.

Search pattern not terminated at -e line 1.

[wayne_104]

This does not give me an error but does not give me output either.

perl -nle 'print $1 if (m{(m{(.*?)})})' *xml

[Doug O'Leary · Accepted solution]

Hey;

Typo: sorry about that. Bad thing about cutting/pasting from a different window:

perl -nle 'print $1 if ((m{(.*?)})' *htm

I had one too many m{'s in there.

the m{} syntax changes the normal search delimiter from / to {}

Doug

[wayne_104]

Hi Doug

Looks like you had a typo again. one two few )

This works just fine.

perl -nle 'print $1 if ((m{(.*?)}))' *xml

[wayne_104]

Thanks Doug really appreciate it.

perl -nle 'print $1 if ((m{(.*?)}))' *xml