Getting the text content of a HTML page

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sun Aug 3 06:43:33 EDT 2008


Heather,

My little example filters out all line that have a < followed by a >.

I thought you were putting returns before the <'s and after the >'s,  
which should make the example work, since all tags would be on their  
own separate line, if the site doesn't contain any mistakes.

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On 3 aug 2008, at 12:29, H Baric wrote:

> Thanks for helping me make sense of that Mark :)
>
> I tested it out on my project, and it filters out everything in the  
> entire
> field!
>
> I thought I knew why, as the field displays:
> <table><tr><td>This is a table. Can you see this text?</td></tr></ 
> table>
>
> Everything IS in between the < and >.
>
> But then I tried adding text outside the table tags, and it still  
> filtered
> out them too. Resulting in empty field!
>
> :D
>
> *scratches head*
>
> Cheers,
> Heather
>
> -----
>
> Hi Heather,
>
> This ought to be
>
> filter myLines without "*<*>*"
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
> http://economy-x-talk.com
> http://www.salery.biz
>
> Benefit from our inexpensive hosting services. See
> http://economy-x-talk.com/server.html
>  for more info.
>
> On 3 aug 2008, at 10:26, H Baric wrote:
>
>> (Re my last post), I guess what I want to know is, how to use the
>> info in
>> the FILTER and REGULAR EXPRESSIONS etc for Processing Text / Data,
>> when
>> there are other characters ***besides A-Z and 0-9***
>>
>> I can't find any examples that use other characters, they all use
>> letters
>> and numbers! Everything I try doesn't work :( So I'm concluding it's
>> not
>> possible? Which can't be...
>>
>> Halp?!
>>
>> Can someone write a line for me using the filter:
>> filter container {with | without} wildcardExpression
>>
>> but using another character(s) not just letters and numbers?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Heather
>
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