Re: how to text edit from html format page

From: Adam Price (adam+usenet_at_pappnase.co.uk)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 05:36:15 +0100

In news:ae45506e.0307291230.72a825b4@posting.google.com,
steverourke <steve750813@yahoo.com> typed:
> is there anyone who knows how to text-edit on html page using
> tools such as sed, awk, or perl?
> for example, in finance.yahoo.com, i find out financial statement,
> then, i want to substract only numbers that i want to put into my
> database.
>
> based upon your expertise, is there any way to do such things by
> using text-editing tools with regular expression? it would be
> great to have respone on how to do that, but i would be stil good
> to learn just ways.
> thank you

Easiest way is to use a 'text mode' browser such as links or lynx
to process the html into a plain text format and work from there.
HTH
Adam

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