Re: Read text from HTML file and display it

OR, if you have lynx on your system,
you can do like so:

use warnings;
use strict;

  my $filename = $ARGV[0];
  my $ascii = system("lynx -dump $filename");

  print $ascii;
[download]

If you tell me, I'll forget.
If you show me, I'll remember.
if you involve me, I'll understand.
--- Author unknown to me

Comment on Re: Read text from HTML file and display it Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Read text from HTML file and display it by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Oct 29, 2012 at 20:35 UTC
`use warnings; use strict; my $filename = $ARGV[0]; my $ascii = system("lynx -dump $filename"); print $ascii;` [download] Your `$ascii` variable will contain the return value, a number, from system which is not what you seem to be expecting. Backticks or qx() will return what normally goes to STDOUT.	[reply] [d/l] [select]