strip newlines in TD cell ?

[Richard A. DeVenezia]

Can't figure this one out...

How can I strip all the newlines of stuff between <TD and </TD> ?

I read in and join some HTML
<TABLE><TR><TD>1
2
3
</TD>
<TR><TD>A
B
C</TD></TR></TABLE>

that I want process as

<TABLE><TR><TD>1 2 3</TD>
<TR><TD>A B C</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks.

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Can't figure this one out...

How can I strip all the newlines of stuff between <TD and </TD> ?

I read in and join some HTML

Maybe by using an HTML parser to parse HTML?
Contrary to popular believe parsing HTML correctly is close to rocket
science and nobody with a sane mind would attempt to do that using REs
alone.

For further details please see the FAQ. 'perldoc -q HTML':
"How do I remove HTML from a string?"

jue

 

[Tad McClellan]

How can I strip all the newlines of stuff between <TD and </TD> ?

Use a module that can properly parse HTML.

I read in and join some HTML
<TABLE><TR><TD>1
2
3
</TD>
<TR><TD>A
B
C</TD></TR></TABLE>

that I want process as

<TABLE><TR><TD>1 2 3</TD>
<TR><TD>A B C</TD></TR></TABLE>

Then why did you say you wanted to _strip_ newlines?

If you stripped newlines, you'd end up with:

<TABLE><TR><TD>123</TD>
<TR><TD>ABC</TD></TR></TABLE>

It appears that what you actually want is to replace newlines
with spaces...


s#(<TD>.*?</TD>)# $a=$1; $a =~ tr/\n/ /; $a #gse;


But that does not produce output like your example either.

I'll leave it to you to make it do whatever it is that you want done...