Looking for a Batch Text Parser

[Hunt4Gold]

Hi All... I've been searching for the past 2 hours and I've decided to ask the experts...


I am looking for a program that can extract a certain text section using 2 key words and keep what is in between.. Example

bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla <noscript> alb alb alb alb alb </noscript> bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

I'd like to be able to keep the <noscript> Contents </noscript> I have folders containing over 1,000,000 files (All recipes before anyone asks) and there is no duplicate reference in the files. Once the part is extracted either all saved in a same file or seperate and i'll merge them.

Any suggestions... thank you all in advance...

Hunt4Gold

[noaccount]

ask the experts...

eek thats not me

you know regular expressions? several text editiors allow you to do that, for instance pspad. than there's astrogrep, baregrep, windows grep... regexbuddy, powergrep...

[Hunt4Gold]

Thank you... the computer is converting the files as we speak... I would of loved to been able to find a script to just drag and drop in a folder but hey I can't complain it did the job... Thanks again.

Have a great day.

P.S: It's surprising that we don't think sometimes on the simplest of tools to do the job... ;-)

[Raymond]

You might want to try TextCrawler.
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...le-text-files/

[Hunt4Gold]

Thanks Raymond... for those who need to do the same thing I went to the programmer's site of Text Crawler to ask the expression code required here it is..

<noscript>[\s\S]*</noscript>

and then just use extract works like a charm.

You saved me day's of work I owe you one.