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Old 10-18-2007
coverting html data to text in 'c'

hi,
iam reading the webpage using curl socket.
so iam geting the data in html format
so how can convert html data to text data ,so i can move forward.
thank u,
sree
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Old 10-18-2007
HTML is basically ASCII text with embedded tags. You can roll your own parser to find the text you are looking for or you can use something like TinyXML if your HTML is XHTML-comformant.
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Old 10-18-2007
how it can be possible ,is there any function in c .
# 4  
Old 10-18-2007
Hi.

Instead of using curl or wget, you might consider using lynx, it removes the tags:
Quote:
-dump dumps the formatted output of the default document or one
specified on the command line to standard output. This can be
used in the following way:

lynx -dump Lynx links

-- excerpt from man lynx
or the html2text utility at html2text | mbayer.de

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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