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A basic look around would probably handle that.

<title\b[^>]*>(((?!Juju - Search Results).)*)(.*\s?)</title>

Snekse 2010-09-30 20:40:38

That's a nice little program you have there but on my end there is no execute button to test.

Ricky 2010-09-30 20:55:01

I've tested the above code and it still didn't work. Let's say for instance instead of the value Theory - I want to ignore the value "Juju - Search Results". The regex can even exclude values that begin with the first 4 words without even being concerned with spaces.

Ricky 2010-09-30 20:57:43

Not sure I understand what you're getting at. I've updated the example with the regEx that should handle the case you mentioned.

Snekse 2010-09-30 21:26:28

Thanks bro perfect.

Ricky 2010-09-30 21:33:02

I had to switch the parentheses around and remove the last set of brackets and * but works like a charm!!

Ricky 2010-09-30 21:33:39

Just out of curiosity, can you post your final pattern?

Snekse 2010-09-30 21:59:37

Answer 2

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If your file input_file.txt contains:

<title>Index</title>

<title>Artwork</title>

<title>Theory</title>

Then, the following command will remove the lines containing Theory from input_file.txt and put the result in output_file.txt.

sed '/Theory/d' input_file.txt > output_file.txt

If you work in vim: This will delete the lines containing g/\v^(.*Theory)@!/d

djondal 2010-09-30 20:45:03

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