Awesome! Brilliant! Thanks Scott! Just visited your website, and as a mum I approve! I'm hoping all my current efforts and ideas will someday lead me to making something of value with R also, especially for kids and other mums etc. In the meantime, so many ideas yet so little skill!
Cheers, Heather :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Getting the text content of a HTML page Hello Heather, Mark's use of filter answered your question nicely. This chunking method illustrates another, less elegant, way of doing what your pseudo-code below describes. put field "theField" into tText replace "<" with (CR&"<") in tText replace ">" with (">"&CR) in tText -- build a new list without the "<" or ">" lines repeat for each line tLine in tText if ("<" is not in tLine) AND (">" is not in tLine) then put tLine &CR after tNewText end if end repeat put tNewText Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ On Aug 3, 2008, at 1:06 AM, H Baric wrote: > Okay, can someone please tell me if this (or something remotely like > it) > would be possible (if script was written correctly, which I can't > for the > life of me work out how): > > put url "somewebpage" into field "theField" > > put return before all the "<" > > put return after all the ">" > > replace lines containing "<" and ">" with empty > > > > HAHA, I know it's not anywhere near the solution to extracting text > from > HTML (Eric's function does a wayyy better job of that), but I'd LOVE > to know > how to actually write the script if not anything else, because it's > driven > me crazy for about two hours now! Grrr > > If it does something wonderful that would be great too :P > > Thanks so much :) > > Heather > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
