Off-Topic: Parse an html file and transfer the text found

[John Toliver]

I want to send a pastebin because I think it's html with javascript
embedded, but I'm not sure......

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:37, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> John Toliver wrote:
>
>> So my question to start is which language should I use to pull the
>> data out of an html file?  Is perl better for this application, or is
>> python better or some other language?
>
> Yes :-)  Any language that has tools for parsing HTML that you're
> comfortable with would be good.  If the files are guaranteed valid XHTML,
> you probably have even more choices probably, but certainly Perl or Python
> should be fine, and I'd use Python.
>>
>> I'm probably going to need to brush up on my regular expressions for
>> this but that's ok too.
>
> That's why if they're XHTML, it's easier - because then the files should
> parse with an XML parser and be really easy to extract the meaningful data
> from.
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