To prepare a typical PerlMonks page for a Palm PDA, I'd like to remove all references to ads & all the nodelets such as the chatterbox etc.

I need to strip one line and a range of lines between two tags.

I'm not sure on the best way to do this so would appreciate advice from fellow Monks. My initial attempts were miserable convoluted failures.

As an example, save the source HTML for this page onto HD as example.htm.

Given a filename which is a saved PerlMonk page (e.g. example.htm),

Strip out:

Entire <layer src="http://adfu.blockstackers.com/servfu.pl....."line. (the line above appears after <BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#000066" vlink="#333399">)

From <!-- nodelets start here --> to last </CENTER>(before </BODY>)

Save the rest under a different filename.

Perhaps this should be a feature of the PerlMonks site like those websites which offer a button "Prepare this page for printing/emailing" etc alongside all articles etc. What do you think?

dmtelf

In reply to Stripping tags from a PerlMonks page. by dmtelf

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