Re: Need pointers for HTML --> ASCII conversions

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Stan Ryckman wrote:

> At 05:37 PM 6/19/98 +0300, Jari Aalto+list.procmail wrote:
> > |Fri 1998-06-19 Timothy J Luoma 
> > <procmail(_at_)Unix(_dot_)luomat+Lists(_dot_)nokia(_dot_)com> list.procmail
> > | I'm sure someone has written a program script with lynx to convert HTML to 
> >
> > | regular ASCII text, but can't find any references to it
> > Here is perl one liner:
> >    perl -0777 -pe 's/<[^>]*>//g'
> It also attacks non-HTML very well, too.
> In fact, it will even wreck any copies of itself that it finds  :)

I guess it could be called a quick and dirty solution, but it also misses
the nasty &nbsp things that some htmlisers sprinkle so liberally around the
text.


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