Re: Suggestion for enhancement

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 address@hidden wrote:

>I have a need that's not satisfied with split, but which split could do.
>At present, I'm doing it in Perl (and that's probably adequate for what
>I need to do).
>
>Contemplate a document such as one returned by this command:
>wget -O /tmp/houses.html \
>       
> "http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=qfp&cat=House&p=200&s=wa&o=p&t=res&id=6285}";
>
>That will produce a list of homes available for purchase in a region
>become famous for Fine Wines.
>
>The document has a heap of junk top and bottom, and some identifiable
>material between the descriptions of individual homes.
>
>What I suggest is that split be enhanced to provide a means of splitting
>based on content.

Have you looked at csplit?


Cheers,
Phil