RE: HTML to Text

-----Original Message-----

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Bin Server</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<p>Data that I need</p>
<p>Data that I need</p>
</BODY>
</HTML>

I want the output to just be lines of "Data that I need" stored in a
string, that I can work on each line one at a time, or in an array or
something like that would be great.

I would first strip out everything from the start to <BODY>, then everything
from </BODY> to the end...

$test2convert =~ s/^.*\<BODY\>// ;
$test2convert =~ s/\<\/BODY\>.*$// ;

Remove any existing newlines...

$test2convert =~ s/\n// ;

Are you sure that the paragraph tags are always paired up? If so, you could
always strip out the <p>s and substitute the </p> with \n . If you don't
have control over the input, then this would be a big assumption to make.

But it might give you ideas to start with based on how complex the data
is...

Good luck.

-r




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