What you get is Not what you see wrote:
> <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" value="value" />
> How can I extract the value from such an html line?

You may try something along the idea of

  sed -r 's/^.*\Wvalue="([^"]*)".*/\1/i'

However, if you never had a chance to learn Perl before, you may take
this one. In particular, look at HTML::Parse and similar modules.
Received on 2008-02-26