Extract text from a html file

gsphanikumar6 · 08-20-2004, 09:28 AM

Hey guys
I am a newbie. I want to write a script that takes a directory with set of html files as input scan through each file and remove the html tags within the body of the pages and pick each word of the plain text that remains and put it in a file with each word on a new line.
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Thanks in advance

david_ross · 08-20-2004, 01:05 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Try this:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

while(<STDIN>){
$line=$_;
$line=~s/<[^>]*>//ig;
$line=~s/\s/\n/ig;
print $line;
}

exit;

It reads from stdin and writes to stdout.

gsphanikumar6 · 08-20-2004, 01:11 PM

Thanks for the reply david_ross
But i don't know perl. I will be thank full if u write the code in
bash