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I'm trying to list selected items from tables on different pages in one new table using the extract markup. My new table consists of one row per extract statement, each containing the lines that are the extract result. This works very well, but due to the processing sequence, the extract results in each row are an encapsulated table by themselves so there are no continuous columns spanning all rows. (I'd prefer continuous columns as this would it simple to copy & paste the relevant parts of the listed information, in this case e-mail addresses.) I've tried generating the list with a single extract statement, which is not straightforward as there is no clear pattern in the to-be-searched group names, but this does not yield continuous columns either. Is there a way to get continuous columns (or to isolate the e-mail address from the source line though the search term is somewhere else in the same line)? --Henning February 03, 2010, at 10:31 AM

I don't see how you can get output formatted as one table. But perhaps the last is possible: use the snip= parameter to remove unwanted parts of the result line. - HansB February 03, 2010, at 11:56 AM

Thanks, your answer showed me the way. I use snip=.*mailto.|\| now as the mailto: markup itself is not vital to me and the email address is the rightmost column in the source tables. If the expression looks clumsy, it's because it's the first time I give regular expressions a try :-) --Henning February 03, 2010, at 12:36 PM

given, I want to extract content from several news pages, like

{(extract '.' News.* -News.RecentChanges -News.Uebersicht -News.*-Talk prefix=link lines=3 cut='!')} Is there a way to sort the page processing by the age of the pages (e.g. last edit or so), so that the latest news are displayed on top? Ingo vonBorstel? September 09, 2008, at 10:26 AM

HansB: I think you could install PowerTools and use the (pagelist ...) with normal PageLists#pagelistorder sort order parameters to provide the list of pages inside the (extract ..) expression, for instance like this: {(extract . (pagelist name=News.*,-News.RecentChanges,-News.Uebersicht,-News.*-Talk order=-ctime) prefix=link lines=3 cut='!')}