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hector
Reading HTML Text Content
Dec 3rd, 2007, 2:03pm  
Hi processing pros!
I am a newbie and I try to read out some text from a html website.

The website is for e.g.:
http://www.sternmotor.de/test.htm

Iam using proHTML to read it out and it works fine so far, but:
After reading out the text I need to seperate the content by the already on the website given commas. But proHTML just cuts off the commas and also special characters as ü, ä and ö.
So it seperates the text just word by word, and not comma by comma.

Question:
Does anybondy can give me a hint how to read out the complete text with all commas and characters?

Thanx!
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fjen
Re: Reading HTML Text Content
Reply #1 - Dec 4th, 2007, 9:20am  
hi "hector"! Wink

something like this?
Code:

String[] lines = loadStrings( "http://www.sternmotor.de/test.htm" );

String html_source = join( lines, "\n" );

int index1 = html_source.indexOf( "<body" ) + 5; // 5 = length of "<body"
int index2 = html_source.indexOf( ">", index1 ) + 1;
int index3 = html_source.indexOf( "<!-- Render time:", index2 );

String txt = html_source.substring( index2, index3 );
txt = trim(txt);

txt = join( split(txt, "<br>"), "\n" ); // replace "<br>" with newlines

println( txt );

println( split( txt, "," ) );


best
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hector
Re: Reading HTML Text Content
Reply #2 - Dec 4th, 2007, 11:04am  
O man, it works perfectly!
Thank you so much!

Double-IP-Hector
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