Hi!
There's the wonderful recipe 20.5 ("Converting HTML to ASCII") in Chapter 20
("Web Automation") of the "Perl Cookbook" (by Tom Christiansen and Nathan
Torkington, from O'Reilly).
A basic way to achieve the ripping of HTML tags and the replacement of <br>
and <p> tags by line breaks might be something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open HTMLFILE, "<the_html_file's_name" || die "Can't open that: $!";
while (<HTMLFILE>)
{
chomp;
s/<p[^>]+>/\n\n/gi;
s/<br[^>]+>/\n/gi;
s/<[^>]+>//g;
print;
}
- but be careful! This won't work when there are multi-line HTML tags!
Sascha
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>Von: "Sparkle Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Betreff: perl and internet files
>Datum: Don, 19. Jul 2001 15:51 Uhr
>
> Good morning!
> I just wrote a perl program that retrieves files of type http:// and ftp://
> from the internet. When it retrieves the files it
> comes up in the html syntax of head, body, text etc. Is there any way I can
> write an addition to my script that will cause
> the text to come up in it's formatted form rather than the html syntax
> describing it's format?
>
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