On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:17:00AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to extract text out of html docs to do search word highlighting in
> context. (You know, like google's output.)
>
> So, is there a "fastest" method to do this -- better than just using
> HTML::Parser, setting a flag when I catch <body> and then storing the text?
If 'fastest' means 'most convenient', try
perl -MLWP::Simple -MHTML::TreeBuilder -e \
'print HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse(LWP::Simple::get("http://www/";))->as_text'
--
Reinier
