Re: Strip HTML tags

As discussed on many threads recently, this kind of work is really better left to the professionals - which in this case is HTML::Parser and its subclasses.

Any regex-based solution is bound to break at some point as your HTML gets more complex.

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Re: Re: Strip HTML tags by rlk (Pilgrim) on Dec 15, 2000 at 23:03 UTC
Well, I mentioned that this'd break on bad HTML. Specifically, it assumes all tags have an even number of "outer" quotation marks(1) in them.... In my defense, the complexity of the HTML is not at issue here, because I'm not really parsing it, I'm simply stripping all tags, which is a much simpler problem. (1)I hadn't realized that `foo='"'` was a legal attribute-value pair originally. This has since been fixed. -- Ryan Koppenhaver, Aspiring Perl Hacker "I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave."	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Strip HTML tags
by rlk (Pilgrim) on Dec 15, 2000 at 23:03 UTC

In my defense, the complexity of the HTML is not at issue here, because I'm not really parsing it, I'm simply stripping all tags, which is a much simpler problem.

(1)I hadn't realized that foo='"' was a legal attribute-value pair originally. This has since been fixed.

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