Re: Cleaning up html

[Jay McNally jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]

Good idea, Richard.
I tried it and it does not work, at least on a Detroit News file. I don't
have the expertise to figure out how they do that, but they really make it
a pain to get text.

I'm sending you privately the file that did not work.

Jay



At 10:23 PM 6/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
> Wouldn't it be easier to bring up a browser in local mode and access the
> HTML file, then save as in test (txt) format. This should give ONLY the
> text of the contents and none of the HTML tags.
>
> Jay McNally wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone offer me some advice for this problem?
> >
> > I often need to take text from a web document that has been saved in html.
> >
> > My somewhat tedious but simple process for some years is to simply loop an
> > xpl routine that defines then deletes everything from the first "less
> > than" bracket to the next "greater than" bracket. I then manually clean up
> > the rest of the junk. It works.
> >
> > Can I run a CHange command with wildcards that would erase the whole string
> > between the brackets, such as the following junk?
> >
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> >
> > I'm thinking it would be nice to have one command that would clean out
> > everything between the brackets, then another command deleting the
> > brackets. I tinkered with it briefly yesterday and got nowhere.
> >
> > Is there a simpler way around this problem?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jay