Re: Ideas for stripping tags from document

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2021-01-17 10:57, Ignatios Souvatzis (GSG) wrote:
> Am 17. Januar 2021 00:01:23 MEZ schrieb Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>:
> > On 2021-01-16 19:45, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > I have a large document (18,000L). It is full of tags such as <93>
> > > ,<94> , <95> .
> > >
> > > If I view the doc in a PERL editor I see \x{93} , \x{94} , \{95} ...
> > >
> > > Is there a pkg or command to strip these tags and leave the text ?
> >
> > tr -d "\223\224\225" < infile > outfile
> I,d convert them to ", ",and maybe *, if you really want pure ASCII, but yes.

Well, he did ask how to strip them.

But sure, tr can be used for replacing them with other characters as 
well, obviously. Trivial, in fact.

  Johnny

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