Re: Tokeparser Textify Command

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Re^2: Tokeparser Textify Command by SpacemanSpiff (Sexton) on Nov 10, 2005 at 05:52 UTC
wouldn't `$text->{textify} = { br => '' };` swap br tags with a blank space? i've tried that as well as a few variations (like putting br in the single quotes or just having br alone in the curly brackets), all to no avail.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Tokeparser Textify Command by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 10, 2005 at 06:15 UTC
The documentation you just quoted clearly states that the value of the key specifies which attribute the replacement text should be taken from (so by default, it replaces `<img>` tags by the text in their `alt` attribute). Since you want no replacement text, an empty string should be the appropriate choice. (Not that it matters, since `<br>` has no attributes to pick replacement text out of.) You could be more specific about “no avail” – what is happening and how does it contradict your expectations? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^4: Tokeparser Textify Command by SpacemanSpiff (Sexton) on Nov 10, 2005 at 07:25 UTC
fair enough, i didn't articulate my problem thouroughly. here's an example of the HTML i'm reading into the $text variable: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <DIV><FONT color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="54005130 +1-30062000">Steve,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="54005130 +1-30062000"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="54005130 +1-30062000">The picture was one that you pointed me at in the paper a + couple of weeks ago. I don't have any pictures of mine yet.</SPAN></ +FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="54005130 +1-30062000"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="54005130 +1-30062000">Tom</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV align="left" class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr"><FONT face="T +ahoma" size="2">-----Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> eat@joes.com [mailt +o:eat@joes.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 10, 2005 3:50 PM<BR><B>T +o:</B> google.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Test] another test<BR><BR>< +/DIV></FONT><TT>Tom wrote:<BR>>OK, I finally figured out that you +can post online at the website or just<BR>>send an e-mail.<BR><BR> +Oh and the pic... it looks like it was shot during an<BR>earthquake.& +nbsp; :-)<BR><BR>Steve<BR></TT><TT>To unsubscribe from this group, se +nd an email to:<BR>listmod@google.com<BR><BR></TT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <br><br> </div> </td></tr></table> [download] to do that, i use the following line in my script: `my $text = $stream->get_text ("/table");` [download] this returns the following printed later in the script: Steve, The picture was one that you pointed me at in the paper a couple of we +eks ago. I don't have any pictures of mine yet. Tom -----Message-----From:eat@joes.com [mailto:eat@joes.com] Sent:Monday, +June 10, 2005 3:50 PM To: google.com Subject: Re: [Test] another test + Tom wrote: OK, I finally figured out that you can post online at the + website or just send an e-mail. Oh and the pic... it looks like it w +as shot during an earthquake. :-) Steve To unsubscribe from this grou +p, send an email to: listmod@xxxxx.com [download] all of the HTML is stripped by nature of the operation, and that's great. i'm looking to keep the BR tags, however, so when i reimport the data elsewhere, it retains the formatting of the original (notice how the text at the bottom is all smashed together with no line breaks). so what i meant earlier by no avail, i meant i was still getting the text all squashed together as above. hope that made a little more sense.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Tokeparser Textify Command by PodMaster (Abbot) on Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09 UTC