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egrep -i -e -f test.txt test1.htm matches, but for test2.htm does not (line
break before closing '>')

(My first hairy regular expression!)

I was trying to do "A String within doublequotes" (Mastering Regular
Expressions, O'Reilley 7th Printing, page 22); instead of quotes we have the
brackets of an html tag. Reading the expression from left to right,

        <[a-z][a-z0-9]*         the html tag identifier

        [^>]*onload *= *                followed by the onload attribute 
(before the closing
bracket)

        [^> ]*                  skip over the attribute's value (presuming 
spaces are delimiting)

        \(                      an open parenthesis

        ([^>]*>                 a close bracket (as long as it's not nested)

I was trying to see if Regular expressions could do syntax parsing without
becoming a mile long.

For hairy parsing like this do you recommend YACC? Or does sed have
extensions to handle it??

test.txt
Description: Text document