How can I extract sentenses from text documents

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 13:09 -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
> Ok, this may be totally impossible but, I have about 1800 documents that 
> have sentences inside [QUOTE] and sometimes [QUOTE] [QUOTE] or [QUOTE] 
> [/QUOTE]. I don't know how many lines each document has - maybe 8 to 
> 20k. Is there a way to copy all the sentences between the [QUOTE] 
> [QUOTE] or [QUOTE] [/QUOTE] to a new file?  
> 
> This is way beyond my knowledge but if someone knows how this is done, 
> if they would point me in the right direction - I would greatly 
> appreciate it..

Perl with libtext-delimmatch-perl (man Text::DelimMatch) would probably
do the trick.

TIMTOWTDI.

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Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>