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Article #12417Re: Stripping out HTML
From: Cat
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:03
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:03
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In article <beemag$lv6$1@gruvel.une.edu.au>, Lindsay Rowlands <lrowland@metz.une.edu.au> wrote: > Yep. Just fire up any browser, open each file and save as text. Couldn't > be simpler. Alternatively, open the html files in Word X and save as a > word documents. You could also create a macro to process all the files > and automate the procedure. Lynz Thanks - pretty obvious, really. But she has 2000 files :) I have convinced her to buy a copy of BBEdit (she'll find other uses for it) - turns out it has a strip-tags command which works well. I think I can script BBEdit to do this in a kind of batch mode. Pip pip. Meow
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,a38fe3e5c58757bd X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Thread: feb82,a38fe3e5c58757bd X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-08 17:03:31 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!meow From: Cat <meow@purring.cat> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: Stripping out HTML Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:03:37 +1000 Organization: Netspace Internet Lines: 19 Message-ID: <meow-D8AC46.10033709072003@otis.netspace.net.au> References: <meow-4429DE.22290508072003@otis.netspace.net.au> <beemag$lv6$1@gruvel.une.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-202-45-99-64.act.netspace.net.au X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 1057709010 81477 202.45.99.64 (9 Jul 2003 00:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@otis.netspace.net.au NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:03:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X)