Re: Suggestion for enhancement

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Philip Rowlands wrote:

> 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?

Never heard of it. How about we agree the resolution might be to
cross-reference the two (and maybe cut) in their documentation?

Thanks for the quick response.

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Cheers
John