Using awk/sed to find text between delimiters and outputting each result to a file

Hi Guys,

working on a solaris 9 box and I have an a problem I am not educated enough to solve :P

bit of a boring one, essentially I have a monthly HTML report and I want to extract the tables from it into separate files each month.

for example

should be extracted to 2 files, one containing
the other containing
(assuming the number of tables is variable)

I've been struggling with this for a week, but I just can't get the output to multiple files.

am I asking the impossible?

thanks in advance

re: Using awk/sed to find text between delimiters and outputting each result to a file

You can do this using awk.
Open the file in awk
Start reading the file When you encounter the first <table> strta collecting or append that to a string.
Do this till you hit the </table>

Do the same for the next <table></table> operation.

Th catch is dont rely on awk to parse the file and u read the file in the awk code.That is dont rely on $1 $2 etc giiven by awk.


Raghu

re: Using awk/sed to find text between delimiters and outputting each result to a file

Thanks Raghu,

But I think you misunderstand me, I understand the logic of it, but not the practicality, my AWK knowledge is limited. are you suggesting some sort of loop?

like
??

re: Using awk/sed to find text between delimiters and outputting each result to a file

The code wuld be like this
Raghu