sed html tags

[Paul A. Procacci]

siran wrote:
> Hi, I have the string
>
> <span xxxx> 111 </span> 2222 <span yyyy> 3333 </span>
>
> And i wish to use sed to strip *only* the "<span xxxx>" tag and its
> contents... is this possible ? I'm trying this expression, but it
> doesn't work...
>
> sed 's/<span xxxx[^\(</span>\)]+<\/span>//g' file
>
> is there anything like it ?
>
> I would like to obtain
>
> 2222
>
>
>
> I hope someone can help,
>
> thank you,
>
> siran
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 sed -E 's/<\/?span[^>]*>//g'

Myabe that's what you want?