Remove HTML function

[Geoff Canyon]

At 2:25 PM +1000 5/18/02, David Vaughan wrote:
>On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 01:58 , Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a script to removing HTML from a string/chunk/whole file?
>
>This is how I am handling a download I do daily. The general statement is pretty simple but note I also handle a special set of characters just after. Perhaps there is a general rule you could make there.
>
>-- Remove HTML tags
>  repeat for each line aLine in data
>    repeat while matchchunk(aLine,"<*>")
>      delete char offset("<",aLine) to offset(">",aLine) of aLine
>    end repeat
>    put aLine & return after outData
>  end repeat
>
>  -- Remove certain HTML characters which happen to be in the text I process
>  replace " " with empty in outData
>  replace tab with empty in outData


This will get substantially easier with the next release -- non-greedy regex should allow the find/replace to happen with one command.
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