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Hello, ssaahh. Welcome to the Monastery.

The script dicthtml2tab.pl is quite simple. It takes the input file as argument and writes to standard output. Therefore, assuming you are on a unix-like OS or at least using a standard shell, the steps to use it are:

Download the file
Make sure you can run it: chmod a+rx dicthtml2tab.pl
Run it: ./dicthtml2tab.pl myinputfile > myoutputfile

Note that the dicthtml2tab.pl script uses regex to parse HTML which is, at best, fragile. If this is a common enough task then it might be better for someone to write and publish a new script which uses a proper HTML parser instead. But that's for another day.

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In reply to Re: Using perl script to covert .html file to tab delimited file by hippo
in thread Using perl script to convert .html file to tab delimited file by ssaahh

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