Retrieve Value between tags

**siddukirk** · 05-19-2009

Hi all,

Say below shown html is the file



<html>
<head>
<title>1_3-BF-01</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="TestPurpose">The content of the script element MUST
be treated as if its display property were set to the value "none"
and the content of the noscript
element printed</div>
<div class="AssertionsTested">Tests for assertions 1</div>
<script type="plain/text">The text must not be printed</script><noscript><p>This text must be printed</p></noscript>
</body>

and i want the content between the <div class="TestPurpose"> </div>

which is as output

The content of the script element MUST
be treated as if its display property were set to the value "none"
and the content of the noscript
element printed

How to do it ?

I have simple gawk script when run like ($gawk -f getvalue.awk file.html )
will give only

The content of the script element MUST

which is able to do partially (only one line). How and where do i tweak it to achieve the output shown above .

#getvalue.awk

function stripInputRecord ( inputRecord )
{

gsub ( /^\t*<div.*">/, "", inputRecord);
gsub ( /<\/div.*>/, "", inputRecord);
return inputRecord;
}

/TestPurpose/ {
str = str stripInputRecord( $0 );
}
END {
print str;
}

Thanks in advance for any inputs
--
Thanks & Regards,
Siddu

**ghostdog74** · 05-19-2009

if you have Python

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
pat=re.compile(".*<div class=\"TestPurpose\">(.*?)<\/div>.*",re.M|re.DOTALL)
data=open("file").read()
print pat.findall(data)[0]

output

Code:

# ./test.py
The content of the script element MUST
be treated as if its display property were set to the value "none"
and the content of the noscript
element printed

**siddukirk** · 05-19-2009

I do have python

Thanks Dude !

**siddukirk** · 05-20-2009

Dude But then what if i had iterate over several files

I am sorry ,
I dont know python

Help Me !

**ghostdog74** · 05-20-2009

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env  python
import re,os
pat=re.compile(".*<div class=\"TestPurpose\">(.*?)<\/div>.*",re.M|re.DOTALL)
for files in os.listdir("."):
    data=open(files).read()
    print pat.findall(data)[0]

assuming all files and the script is in current directory. please look at the documentation (see my sig) if you want to learn about Python.

**siddukirk** · 05-20-2009

Yes i would some time soon

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