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https://github.com/veggiemonk/inbtw

small Go utility to extract the text in between two tags
https://github.com/veggiemonk/inbtw

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small Go utility to extract the text in between two tags

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# inbtw

`inbtw` (a.k.a. "in between"), is a small utility to extract the text in between two tags.

```bash mdox-exec="inbtw" mdox-expect-exit-code=2
inbtw extracts the text between tags.

A tag is defined by "// [START " and "// [END "

Example for a file containing:

// [START mytag]
var Bla = "bla"
// [END mytag]

executing:

> inbtw -tag mytag -f myfile.go

will yield:

var Bla = "bla"

Usage of inbtw:
-f string
file(s) to parse, multiple files can be separated by ',', '-' for stdin.
-tag string
tag containing the text to extract.
```

## Purpose

To extract code snippets in order to render them in a document. It requires less maintenance than something like `sed` because it needs line numbers, and less complicated than regex or `awk`.

## Installing

```shell
go install github.com/veggiemonk/inbtw@latest
```