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i have html-text. i have to convert this text to simple text without
html-tags.

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keal wrote:
> i have html-text. i have to convert this text to simple text without
> html-tags.
>
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path o'least resistance

lynx -dump www.myurl
or use links2 ## or w3m -dump www.myurl

or high-falutin solution
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....cd5e35a1ffb8d7

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:30:03 -0000, keal <> wrote:

> i have html-text. i have to convert this text to simple text without
> html-tags.
>

It's tricky, there's more to it than you'd think. The best way is probably
to use Lynx, or another browser, to do it for you, e.g.:

def plain(url)
`lynx -dump "#{url}"`
end

p = plain('http://www.google.com/')
puts p

Outputs:

[1]Personalised Home | [2]Sign in

[3]A picture of the Braille letters spelling out "Google." Happy Birthday
Louis Braille!

Web [4]Images [5]Groups [6]News [7]Froogle [8]more »

> ... [snip] ...

Of course you'll need lynx for that to work, but you can use others too.
Try a Google search.

Cheers,

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Ross Bamford -

keal wrote:
> i have html-text. i have to convert this text to simple text without
> html-tags.

This is a very low cost variant - I guess the lynx approach is much more
effective and complete:

ruby -pe 'gsub! %r{</?.*?>}, ""' index.html

Kind regards

robert