UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,

How might I go about writing a program that will read all input as an HTML file, and subsequently strip all HTML, embedded scripts and style sheets from its input, leaving only text as the output?

I am a beginner, so the simpler, the better.

Thanks for any advice

The subject of your post returns 241,000,000 hits from Google:

Let me google that for you

ThomasMcA, thank you, I did google my question prior to finding this forum. I have actually gone through quite a few google pages, and have not found quite what I'm after, in terms that I can understand. I'm an utter beginner, and was hoping that somebody here could help me out, not just show me how to type something into a Google search bar

What Operating System and version do you have and what Shell do you use?

What programming languages are installed on your computer?

Do you know any programming languages?

Your short question that contained absolutely no details might as well have said "gimme the answer, I'm too lazy to look for myself."

If you did search first, that's great. But you didn't tell us that.

Even your last reply doesn't tell us much. Are you looking for a utility that strips out the code from HTML source? Or are you trying to learn a scripting language? if so, which one?

Perhaps you didn't find what you're after because your Google search was too vague. Perhaps you didn't find it because you're not really sure what you're looking for. If that is the case, nobody can help you.

So, please try again. Tell us exactly what you're trying to do.