Depending on what you are doing... I have found a lot of great ways to pull out tables from HTML using HTML::TableExtract and LWP::UserAgent and HTML::TreeBuilder. I really haven't delved in to all of the libraries under HTML, but these have been greate. see cpan.org or perldoc for more info.
-----Original Message----- From: Gary Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: read source file of .html > use LWP. it can be as simple as this : > > > use LWP::Simple; > print get("http://www.mit.edu"); > > Tor. > Neat. Along that line, I would like to be able to wind up with pages after retrieval as plain text without html tags, hopefully using a module. /g -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]