parsing HTML with awk or sed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:32:21PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> I'd like to extract the contents of paragraph tags (<p>) from an HTML
> file.  Don't want anything else, just that - the P tags and what's
> inside them, all other tags and contents not printed.  Unfortunately,
> some are single line:
> 
> <p>data</p>
> 
> and some are multi-line:
> 
> <p>
> More data
> 
> </p>

And some are:
<p>stuff
<p>other stuff
<p>yet more stuff

The <p> tag was not required to be closed.  Kind of a pain isn't it?

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Len Sorensen
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