LAST EDITED ON Oct-04-10 AT 07:17 PM (PST)
 
Here's some tuts for using the Linez Tuel...

Linez is a very powerful text manipulation device. It's as much a puzzle/logic problem as it is a piece of software.

The key to using Linez effectively is the ability to issolate footprints. Once you do this, you can "break" them to different lines, so they can be further modified.

This first video demonstrates how to use Linez to strip some text out of a page of text.

Real life: I made a thread in the public part of the forum that posts Yahoo Answers to the thread from an RSS pheed. You can see the thread here:
http://www.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID33/366.html

The actual content may change as I delete posts I've scraped.

What I want to do is just gather the actual questions and get rid of everything else.

I use Linez to seperate about 2770 different questions from the forum page and do it in less than two minutes...And I'm slowing down so you can keep up.

Watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8zbyES_3o

Basic instructions:

Start Tuelz.exe

Go to page

Select all

Copy

Switch to Linez Tuel (That's why Tuelz are browswer based)

Paste into Linez big box.

Find a footprint contained only in the lines we want to copy. This is key and essential.

Footprint: Open Question:

Copy the lines containing "Open Question: "

This lines are now copied to the clipboard.

Delete all the stuff.

Paste the lines containing the footprint into Linez big box.

Remove footprint to clean up Questions

Number lines - just used to display how many questions were stripped, for video demo only, you won't need to do this step in real life.