ODFEXTRACT(1)

Hey bestie, welcome to ODFEXTRACT(1) 💖 — this one lives under the User Contributed Perl Documentation umbrella, and it’s a whole little sample-script moment. Let’s get into it 🫶

💖 NAME 💖

odfextract — Text selection and copy from one document to another one ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so picture this: this is a sample script, and what it does is honestly kind of iconic — it extracts every text element that matches a given pattern (and yes, that pattern can be a string or a regex) from a source document, then appends it to a target document. Slay 💅

The target document must be an existing one — empty or not, both are fine — but bestie, it has to already be there. No target, no magic 🫶

On the command line, the order is literally this:

• argument 1 — the source file name 💖
• argument 2 — the target file 🎀
• argument 3 — the selection filter, i.e. any quoted string or Perl regular expression 🔍

Lowkey important: that third one is the filter, so that’s where you put your quoted string or your Perl regular expression. Periodt ✨

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