Also, the LWP and Tokeparser perl modules could help you download and stip the HTML... its what they were designed for.
go to search.cpan.org and look for them. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benjamin Pflugmann Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2003 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] packet forwarding solved wget question Hi. On Fri 2003-01-31 at 21:08:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Also, I have another issue: I'm using wget to retreive some river flow > stats on a website and mailing parts off using grep and sendmail and cron. > It was easier than I thought, but it isn't pretty the way I'm doing it. > Right now I'm not stripping out the HTML, and it looks kind of bad and the > text message needs to be as short as possible. Is there an easy way to > strip out HTML codes like nbsp; and any tags? Would converting from HTML to text also do the job? If so, consider lynx -dump or any other tool (w3m, links, ...) which provides similar functionality. HTH, Benjamin.
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