Exporting list of text between delimeters

[nassausky]

Hiya all,

New to this forum.. It looks like perl can do a real nice job of extracting text and more. How can i extract a bunch of text in a large 77 page text file "document1. txt" where it contains text between brackets..

For example:

This is a test document of [widget1] and [object2]. It contains many,
many lines of text and [words3].

Where the output file would be:

widget1
object2
words3

After i get the hang of it, i'll see if i can do the fine adjustments myself.
Thanks :)

Mike

[KevinADC]

perl -ne "s/\[([^\]]+)\]/print $1.\"\n\"/eg" document1.txt > output.txt

You might have to change the outside double-quotes to single-quotes on your system.