Okay! Thank you for the welcome, here is the additional info:

1) I am working with emails in text/html format (no groans, please). My goal is to remove any final spacing off, as well as when they just quote the previous message at the end (quotes in the middle are okay, as they are often used as reference points). I am certain that this is what I want to do, so please hold all "Why would you want to do that?" responses.

2) All the emails will be similar to this in format:

<pre> blah blah blah blah blah Andrew Darby Web Services Librarian Ithaca College Library <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ithaca.edu/library/">http://www.it +haca.edu/library/</a> Vishwam Annam wrote: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em +; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;">I use &quot;Web Acc +essibility Toolbar&quot; as link checker, accessibility checker, HTML and CSS validator. This works for IE, and there is a similar tool available for firefox, web developer extn has some features of this. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/tool +bar/">http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/</a> Color Contrast Analyzer, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/cont +rast_analyser/index.html">http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/co +ntrast_analyser/index.html</a> You can create javascript menus with Navstudio, which is also a free software. I am interested in knowing, what you findout from all. Goodluck with your meeting! Vishwam ----- Original Message ----- From: Isabel Danforth &lt;isabel@shelltown.com&gt; Date: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:03 am Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Favorite Free Web Tools </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em +; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;">I am in a very smal +l academic library. I use MarcEdit to grab MARC records to use in my system. It is free. I would really love to see what other tools you find. Isabel On Fri, 20 May 2005, Susan Boland wrote: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em +; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;">I am working on a p +rogram for the American Association of Law </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> Libraries'&gt; annual meeting that focuses on free or very cheap Web development tools. </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em +; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;">While I have my fav +orites, I'm hoping the list can help me out by suggesting free or cheap tools that I might not be aware of. If you want to reply to me privately, I can summarize for the list. Thanks! Susan M. Boland Chair, Computing Services Special Interest Section Research &amp; Instructional Services Librarian Northern Illinois University College of Law Library DeKalb, Il 60115 815-753-9492 Fax: 815-753-9499 e-mail: sboland@niu.edu <a rel="nofollow" href="http://law.niu.edu">http://law.niu.edu</a> _______________________________________________ Web4lib mailing list Web4lib@webjunction.org <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/">http:/ +/lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/</a> </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> _______________________________________________ Web4lib mailing list Web4lib@webjunction.org <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/">http:/ +/lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +-- _______________________________________________ Web4lib mailing list Web4lib@webjunction.org <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/">http:/ +/lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/</a> </pre></blockquote></blockquote> <pre> </pre>
Note the nested blockquotes. (Those pluses are not in the orginal post, just perlmonks puts them in.)

In reply to Re^2: Using Perl to snip the end off of HTML by eastcoastcoder
in thread Using Perl to snip the end off of HTML by eastcoastcoder

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