Question

i have a set of tags, from which i need to extract some data. I knwo this might be simple. I am not able to get to the part exactly. The tag is shown bewlow.

<Response><Result>Success</Result></Response>

I want to extract whatever comes between the tags. In this case, ‘Success’.
I tried using the grep command , but couldnt get it done. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

echo "<Response><Result>Success</Result></Response>" | perl -npe 's/.*>([^<]+)<.*/$1/'

If the data is saved in a file:

perl -npe 's/.*>([^<]+)<.*/$1/' infile