reading and converting web page HTML text

[Jim Ault]

On Mar 6, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Mark Stuart wrote:

>
> Hi François,
>
> Thanx for your quick reply.
> I added Sarah's script into my application and ran it.
>
> The function halted with an error on ("), because it is not a  
> number. I
> think Sarah's function is looking for a number after the ampersand,  
> correct?
> So I'm handling the (") as an exception for now by using this  
> script:
>
> if theText contains """ then
>   replace """ with quote in theText
> end if
>
> and then call the decodeEntities(theText) function.
>
> I'm sure I'll come across other HTML text like this, but don't know  
> how to
> handle it really.


Basically, I would go to a site that shows all html entities, make a  
list of those, and do a replace using a repeat loop.

Google 'html entities' to get the possibilities.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas