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

Bill Walton bill.walton at charter.net
Wed Aug 6 15:23:47 UTC 2008


Hi John,

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?

My personal preference is Ruby, but any language with an XML parser would
do.  It's just that Ruby makes it enjoyable ;-)

Best regards,
Bill





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