Regex to remove all tags from a web page

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Alex,

Thanks a lot.
That's a first good step since the out text is about 20/30% of the in  
text :-)
HTML tags are stripped but extra code (php,java, etc.) of course  
remains.
Any ideas for these ones?

Le 31 oct. 05 à 13:00, Alex Tweedly a écrit :

> Eric Chatonet wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I searched the list archive and the net for a regex that would  
>> allow  to retrieve the meaningful text from any web page,  
>> stripping all html  tags, extra code, etc. but I did not find  
>> something really  convincing :-(
>> Any help would be much appreciated :-)
>>
>> PS. I don't want to use "set the htmlText/get text" using a  
>> field:  this way crashes Rev unpredictably when doing batch  
>> processing.
>>
>>
> I suspect this will be "not really convincing" :-)
>
> Just removing tags should be
>
>>     put  "<[^><]*>" into tRex
>>     put replacetext(fld "in", tRex, "") into fld "out"
>
> That assumes the html has no "<" or ">" , and is generally well- 
> formed.
> That seems too simple - so it can't be convincing :-)
>
> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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