Getting the text content of a HTML page

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Aug 2 10:59:11 EDT 2008


H Baric wrote:
> Hi again *blush*
> 
> Okay, this is no doubt something very simple even though I've searched through the docs but can't find exactly how to do this seemingly straightforward task:
> 
> * Get the text only from a web page - no html tags, no formatting etc.

One simple way is:

  set the htmltext of fld <fieldname> to the text of fld <fieldname>

It isn't perfect but it suffices for most things.

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