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#2, RE: Linez - How to Manipulate Text
Posted by kelvin brown on Oct-04-10 at 05:38 PM
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Hi Kurt,

I was looking at this thread and watching videos.

I think you forgot to add the video link to the first post.

Kelvin

>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.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID33/366.html
>
>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.