Re: [Addendum] Stripping HTML from a text file.

2003-09-05 Thread Octavian Rasnita
It doesn't work because you check for the beginning and the end tags in the same line, but you have splitted the text in more lines, and the can be found in a line but the tag on another line probably. You can use something like this: $html =~ s|]*>.*?]*>||si; So you don't need to check each

Re: [Addendum] Stripping HTML from a text file.

2003-09-04 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 06:08 US/Pacific, Sara wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl use LWP::Simple; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; $url = 'http://yahoo.com'; $html = get($url); [snip] $html =~ s|.*?<\/head>||s; print "$html\n"; what you get from 'get' is a scalar $html that is the WHOLE PAGE