Re: Pattern matching programming

[Fabrizio Sestito <lain@neotes.org>]

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 17:36, fabio@crearium.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to code a small C program that basically takes a long text
> file with data that comes from a mysql server.
>
> But I realize It is better to use regular expression. This is an examples
> of the text:
>
> =1 <p> blah </p> <div foo>{$foobar}</div>blah.... <p>linux rulez</p>
> misc characters.... =2 blah blah <p> linux rulez again</p>....
> <p>foo</p?blah
>
>
> And so on.
>
> The patterns are:
>
> The record is represented by an equal. Ej, record 1 is "=1", record 2 is
> "=2" and so on.
>
> The desired text is where "linux rulez" is inside, it is the FIRST <p>
> </p> AFTER a record.
>
> So, I see that program this makes no sense because it is better to use sed
> and awk.
>
> The result I want to have is something like:
>
> 1 linux rulez
> 2 linux rulez again
> 3 linux rulez so far
> ...etc
>
> The idea is elimate all <div>'s tags, then get the numbers (maybe with awk
> -F"="), and then get the next <p> taq, remove the tags themself and
> numbers and then the text and do the same procedure for all the 65230
> records.
>
> Thanks alot for any comment, sorry for the 'offtopic'
>
> Kind regards,
>
> fabio
>
Why don't you use an XML parser library?

Fabrizio