fetch substring from html code

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hello mates.
please help me out once again.
i have a html file where i want to fetch out one value from the entire html-code

sample html code:

.....
 <b>Amount:<b> 12345</div>
...

now i only want to fetch the 12345 from the html document.

how to i tell sed to get me the value from between <b>Amount<b> and </div>

thanks guys

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I guess you probably know that isn't even valid HTML. Presuming you have a vaild </b> end tag in reality, try this;

sed -n 's%<b>Amount:</b>\([^<>]*\)</div>%\1%p' file.html

If you really do have a HTML syntax error there, take out the slash in the </b> tag.

This finds a line matching the pattern, replaces it with just the part between the \( parentheses \) and prints it. If there are multiple such lines, they will all be printed.

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thanks man, the <b> was a typo.
nice you care so much.