Re: HTML -> ASCII?

dale@ora.com (Dale Dougherty)

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From: dale@ora.com (Dale Dougherty)
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 23:29:32 -0800
In-Reply-To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
        "HTML -> ASCII?" (Nov  8, 10:46am)
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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: HTML -> ASCII?

The simplest approach is a sed script that removes HTML tags,
that is, anything between a pair of angle brackets.

s/<.[^>]*>//g


You can obviously build more complicated scripts in sed, awk or perl.
The above script will strip out link information because HREF 
is an attribute inside the tag.   

Such seat-of-the-pants conversions depend on how consistent the 
HTML coding is.  This is by no means a general solution.

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