FormatText/TreeBuilder Removes Line Breaks

[afrinspray]

I'm working on a program that removes html formatting from an IM
conversation. Right now, I'm storing the conversation in a variable,
where each line of the conversation is broken up by line feeds (a
single \n). Then I do the following:

my $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$tree->parse($body);
if ($tree) {
$body = $formatter->format($tree);
$tree->delete;
}

where $body is the entire IM conversation.


This strips the line feeds but I needs to keep those in there. Does
anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[afrinspray]

I just found the FAQ in comp.lang.perl.misc and I'm considering the
line:

s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs

Does anyone have any objections?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

I just found the FAQ in comp.lang.perl.misc and I'm considering the
line:

s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs

Does anyone have any objections?

Uhmmmm ... to what?

Sinan

 

[John W. Krahn]

I just found the FAQ in comp.lang.perl.misc and I'm considering the
line:

s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs

Does anyone have any objections?

Yes, I strenuously object!


John

 

[afrinspray]

"are you english or retarded?"
- Alex Trabek