Question

I have a txt file which actually is a html source of some webpage. Inside that txt file there are various strings preceded by a ‘title=’ tag. e.g.

<div id='UWTDivDomains_5_6_2_2'  title='Connectivity Framework'>  

I am interested in getting the text Connectivity Framework to be extraced and written to a separate file.

Like this, there are many such tags each having a different text after the title=’some text here which i need to extract ‘ I want to extract all such instances of the text from the html source/txt file and write to a separate txt file. The text can contain lower case, upper case letters and number only. The length of each text string(in characters) will vary.

I am using PowerGrep for windows. Powergrep allows me to search a text file with regular expression inout. I tried using the search as title='[a-zA-Z0-9]

It shows the correct matches, but it matches only first character of the string and writes only the first character of the text string matched to the second txt file, not all string.

I want all string to be matched and written to the second file.

What is the correct regular expression or way to do what i want to do, using powergrep?

-AD.

Answer 1

I’m not familiar with PowerGrep, however, your regex is incomplete. Try this:

title='[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*' 

or better yet:

title='([^']*)'