REGEX grab content between tags 1

[NetworkGhost]

Trying grab the number out of the following string:

<span class="intronum"><sort date-type="number" select="//meta/@tot"></sort>1120</span>

Using the following:

cat file | grep </sort\b[^>]*>(.*?)</span>

I definitly need to buff up on Regex but could use some help. Thanks.

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[feherke]

Hi

You mean to convert that [tt]grep[/tt] into Tcl ? Your regular expression is quite Ok, but in Tcl the [tt]\b[/tt] means backspace character, not word boundary.

[b]set[/b] html [i]{<span class="intronum"><sort date-type="number" select="//meta/@tot"></sort>1120</span>}[/i]

[b]regexp[/b] [i]{</sort\M[^>]*>(.*?)</span>}[/i] $html match match

[b]puts[/b] $match

Feherke.

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[NetworkGhost]

You Rock. Thanks.

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