Hi Paul,

following up a message from Richard Webb to Paul Quinn:


RW> FIrst we're looking for the line which has (tm) in it, as
RW> that's the start of the actual text.  THen we stuff that
RW> line number into an environment variable as in ...
RW> type newsline.txt | find "(TM)" /i /n >> getstart.txt
RW> :: remove the brackets around the line number using chg.
YOu could use replace as you did with your nodelist search
for much the same.  I use chg for a lot of things like this
as well.
Allows you to just remove, remove and replace with some
pretty complex replacements possible.  I remove the left
bracket completely, replace right bracket with ascii 32,
then we have line number isolated for nset to work with.
as in ...


RW> chg /i getstart.txt /s [91] /r ""
RW> chg /i getstart.txt /s [93] /r [32]
RW> nset first=$1 < getstart.txt
All the preceding is necessary because when saved to a text
file we get all the header info, which we don't want to
post.  sO, we're going to lose it into ye old bit bucket.

THe later invocations of chg remove that =20 that always
shows up at end of paragraphs when people do plaintext that
really isn't and the = at the end of lines.
so there's a whole lotta replacin' goin' on before we post
this stuff as fidonet echomail .


PQ> Ahh, yes.  I had a similar idea for mine; I had in mind to create an
PQ> index of "From:" line numbers, and then run from that.  Great
PQ> minds... and all that.  :)  Nah, I figure the only =exotic= software
PQ> I'll need is fgrep.  My current toolbox of (mostly Horst's) utils
PQ> will do nicely, besides.

YEp, and our bfds coordinator has fgrep386, and I believe
chg.exe if you can't get replace to do what you want.

RW> YEp, that can work.  I"m just straight cutting, but you can
RW> index the from: lines and stuff them one at a time into env
RW> var and let sed do the heavy lifting.

YOu could, if you want to isolate each message in the digest as its own
post.  But, as a digest anyway, I think I'd just
do a split, and make subject line xxx newsgroup digest pt ## and call it
even .

PQ> Sure did.  It means I'm on the right track.  Thanks for your
PQ> insights. 

RW> GLad I could be of help to you for a change.  YOu've sure
RW> steered me the right direction a couple times this last
RW> couple of years .
YOur mileage might vary, but I"d just split 'em and post
'em.

Regards,
           Richard
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