Re: HTML Tag Remover

[lolindrath]

in reply to HTML Tag Remover

This is how I did it without a module, I think it will work for what you need to do.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open FILE, "c:\\html\\vb\\index.html" || die "can't open file";

@text = <FILE>;
$text = join( "", @text );

close FILE;

#print $text;

$text =~ s/(\<(.*?)\>)//sg;

print $text;

I tried this on several of my html files, you need the s option at the end of the replace funtion so that it will remove multi-line tags like comments in javascript.

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[nardo]

That wouldn't work for html such as
<img src="whatever.gif" alt=">>>Click Here<<<">

[lolindrath]

Ok, I added this line before the other regex and it seemed to work, though it is a little specific to that problem. it simple removes anything that has more than one pointy bracket after it. If you want to keep these in you can always replace it with some character and replace it with the pointy brackets after its done with the html tag stripping. This is the revised code

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open FILE, "c:\\html\\test.html" || die "can't open file";

@text = <FILE>;
$text = join( "", @text );

close FILE;

#print $text;
$text =~ s/>[>+]//g; # < -- Added this line
$text =~ s/\<(.*?)\>//sg;

print $text;



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[merlyn]

As said probably a few times before, you can't extract HTML with a simple regular expression. Get HTML::FormatText or one of the other HTML parsers from the CPAN.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker