Re: Remove text between two 'tags'

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

To remove all instances:

sed '/<div class="handheld">/,/<\/div>/d'



And, if there are nested <div> tags:

which there are, although I could possibly change that.

awk '/<div class="handheld">/ { x = 1; next }
/<div / && x > 0 { ++x }
/<\/div>/ && x > 0 { --x; next }
x == 0 { print }'


cheers.


If you are willing to change them by hand, why not get rid of them
at the same time?

Since I will make changes to the files.

I don't mind hacking it once to make it easier to edit automatically, but I don't want to make changes that will require me to edit it manually if I change the content - if that makes any sence!!

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