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Well whatever you do, the only way not to go is to regex the HTML-code yourself. This will only work for the most simple and regular of HTML-code and will break before you know it.

Another approach is to go to the source of your data in the first web-page. Assuming that this is based upon some database, can't you go directly to that database and query the data from there?

CountZero

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In reply to Re: How do I extract text from an HTML page? by CountZero
in thread How do I extract text from an HTML page? by jamiel

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