Top "Extract" questions

Questions related to retrieving specific information from a (typically minimally structured) data source, such as a web site, media file, source code collection or compressed archive (in which case the desired information is one or more original, uncompressed files).

Replacing one character with another in a string

I have a data like below: A:B:C:D and I want to replace the C with data (say, …

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Extract the text out of HTML string using JavaScript

I am trying to get the inner text of HTML string, using a JS function(the string is passed as …

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How to extract just plain text from .doc & .docx files?

Anyone know of anything they can recommend in order to extract just the plain text from a .doc or .docx? …

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Use binwalk to extract all files

I have a file music.mp3. After using binwalk, I get the result: pexea12@DESMICE:~/Downloads$ binwalk music.mp3 DECIMAL …

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How can I untar a tar.bz file in unix?

I've found tons of pages saying how to untar tar.bz2 files, but how would one untar a tar.bz …

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How to extract top-level domain name (TLD) from URL

how would you extract the domain name from a URL, excluding any subdomains? My initial simplistic attempt was: '.'.…

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How to extract the first and final words from a string?

I have a small problem with something I need to do in school... My task is the get a raw …

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Extracting text from PDFs in C#

Pretty simply, I need to rip text out of multiple PDFs (quite a lot actually) in order to analyse the …

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How can I get a frame sample (jpeg) from a video (mov)

I want to get a frame sample (jpeg) from a video file (mov) with java. Is there an easy way …

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How do I move a Git branch out into its own repository?

I have a branch that I'd like to move into a separate Git repository, and ideally keep that branch's history …

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