[PLUG] sed regex to strip html code

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Jul 3 19:01:09 UTC 2002


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 mikeraz at patch.com wrote:

> since the angle brackets are part of an expression enclosed in single quotes 
> you don't need to escape them.

  Aha! I know (from reading the ORA regex book) that there are differences
among applications and that angle brackets are used -- by some -- to
describe word boundaries. Guess that's why I did it as I did.
 
> Try just sed 's/<.*>//g' INFILE  > OUTFILE

  Many thanks!

Rich





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