Re: Stripping out HTML

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From: Brett Ramsey
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:22

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In article <meow-D8AC46.10033709072003@otis.netspace.net.au>,
 Cat <meow@purring.cat> wrote:

> 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


TextSOAP is shareware and does all that and more. You can batch process 
all the files in a folder at once and it's blindingly quick. I just got 
a copy from Tucows.

-- 
Brett Ramsey
PRODUCER
in pit lane

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From: Brett Ramsey <inpitlane@nospam.pitlanepr.com>
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