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abhisheksainiabhishek · Jun 9th, 2008, 7:30 PM

Hi,
I am writing a program in perl which opens and reads a html file and removes unnecessary tags.
For example if an html file has...
<html>
<title>this is the title</title>
<body>
this is a bold text.this is also a
bold text
</body>
</html>

Since there are unnecessary bold tags..I mean it can also be written as this is a bold text.this is also a bold text

Please tell me if I am on the right track...

I read the html file line by line.
On each line when I encounter tag I take the line into a temp string until I approach tag...and I keep searching for any other string after that which uses the immediately after this. I can make separate subroutine to remove the unnecessary tags.

Or should I read file by per charcter encounter. I am fairly new to perl. Please advise me.

casesensitive · Jun 10th, 2008, 7:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abhisheksainiabhishek

Hi,
I am writing a program in perl which opens and reads a html file and removes unnecessary tags.
For example if an html file has...
<html>
<title>this is the title</title>
<body>
this is a bold text.this is also a
bold text
</body>
</html>

Since there are unnecessary bold tags..I mean it can also be written as this is a bold text.this is also a bold text

Please tell me if I am on the right track...

I read the html file line by line.
On each line when I encounter tag I take the line into a temp string until I approach tag...and I keep searching for any other string after that which uses the immediately after this. I can make separate subroutine to remove the unnecessary tags.

Or should I read file by per charcter encounter. I am fairly new to perl. Please advise me.

I dont understand the point of it. Just use classes to bold stuff. Its a lot more fun...

abhisheksainiabhishek · Jun 11th, 2008, 5:55 PM

I am just supposed to use regular expressions.
But I got it working now. Thanks anyways!

Jun 9th, 2008, 7:30 PM	#1
abhisheksainiabhishek Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	html tags replace Hi, I am writing a program in perl which opens and reads a html file and removes unnecessary tags. For example if an html file has... <html> <title>this is the title</title> <body> <b>this is a bold text.</b><b>this is also a bold text</b> </body> </html> Since there are unnecessary bold tags..I mean it can also be written as <b>this is a bold text.this is also a bold text</b> Please tell me if I am on the right track... I read the html file line by line. On each line when I encounter <b> tag I take the line into a temp string until I approach </b> tag...and I keep searching for any other string after that which uses the <b>immediately after this. I can make separate subroutine to remove the unnecessary <b> tags. Or should I read file by per charcter encounter. I am fairly new to perl. Please advise me.

Jun 11th, 2008, 5:55 PM	#3
abhisheksainiabhishek Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Re: html tags replace I am just supposed to use regular expressions. But I got it working now. Thanks anyways!

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