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

Leo Cacciari leo.cacciari at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 15:40:40 UTC 2008


Il giorno mer, 06/08/2008 alle 10.23 -0500, Bill Walton ha scritto:
> 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 ;-)
> 
Both the pyton-lover ;) and myself are gone out of our way trying to
avoid religious wars about scripting language (which are almost as bad
than the ones about emacs/vi, and useful as a sore finger when you have
something to type....) please, do the same :-)

Enjoy 
-- 

Leo Cacciari
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