On Tue, May 2, 2006 13:45, Russ Foster wrote: >> -----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...
Very useful. Thanks. -- Scott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
