Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:07:39AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote:
 Does anyone know of a HTML to Text converter written in Perl?
 It'll need to be able to format tables!!
 
 I normally use lynx to do it but it doesn't handle tables very well :(

It's not Perl, but try using w3m instead.  It's a far superior text mode
browser.  Lynx is from the stone age.  :-)

http://www.w3m.org/

-Dom



Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread Andy Williams

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:07:39AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote:
  Does anyone know of a HTML to Text converter written in Perl?
  It'll need to be able to format tables!!
 
  I normally use lynx to do it but it doesn't handle tables very well :(

 It's not Perl, but try using w3m instead.  It's a far superior text mode
 browser.  Lynx is from the stone age.  :-)

 http://www.w3m.org/

 -Dom


Thanks Dom,

I'll give it a try.

Andy




Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread David Cantrell

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:07:39AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote:

 Does anyone know of a HTML to Text converter written in Perl?
 It'll need to be able to format tables!!
 
 I normally use lynx to do it but it doesn't handle tables very well :(

w3m? links?

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Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:14:02PM +, Rob Partington wrote:
 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  It's not Perl, but try using w3m instead.  It's a far superior text mode
  browser.  Lynx is from the stone age.  :-)
 
 insert standard rant about this meme

For or against?  I'd like to hear it...  I'm very happy with w3m.

-Dom