how to read only the text and get that text in string?

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style3 {font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; }
body {
    background-image: url();
}
.style18 {font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold; color: #F9F9F8; }
.style8 {color: #FFFFFF}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<table width="99%"  cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td height="20" valign="top" bgcolor="#719315">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="151" valign="top" bgcolor="#719315"><table width="90%" align="center" cellpadding="0"  cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td height="69" bgcolor="#587410"><table width="97%"  border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr>
                <td valign="top"><div align="left"><span class="style18">A building project</span></div></td>
              </tr>
          </table></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td height="5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td bgcolor="#F5EDE3"><table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0"  cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse">
              <tr>
                <td bgcolor="#B9D276"><table width="96%"  border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                    <tr>
                      <td height="29"><span class="style8"></span></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td height="25"><table width="98%"  border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                        <tr>
                          <td colspan="3"><p class="Style2" style="line-height: 131%; margin-right: 74.95pt"> <span style="line-height: 131%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.2pt; font-weight: 700"> <font color="#800000"> <br>
                              </font> <font color="#000000"> &nbsp;</font><font color="#800000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> </span><b><font color="#800000"> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.2pt"> <br>
                              </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.2pt"> Few people are committed to a </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.1pt"> building </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.2pt"> project. <br>
        They are </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.1pt"> discussing </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.2pt"> about ways </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.1pt"> and </span> <span style="line-height: 133%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: -.2pt"> means to fund it.</span></font></b></p>
                              <p class="Style2" style="line-height: 131%; margin-right: 74.95pt"> <font color="#000000"> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: .3pt"> Member </span> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: 1.05pt"> 1:</span><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: .3pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, girls there aren't many ways open to us to raise money</span><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Book Antiqua; letter-spacing: .1nbsp;&nbsp; Wonderful, if all of us work together, surely we will complete this project soon. Yea.</font></span></span></p>
                              <p></td>
                        </tr>
                      </table></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td height="10">&nbsp;</td>
                    </tr>
                </table></td>
              </tr>
          </table></td>
        </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#719315">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

am having the document in HTML format, but i need to read only the text not the tags which are used in the document.

is it possible..........?????????????????

Posted 9-Apr-12 20:46pm

Santhosh Subramanian

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Lakamraju Raghuram 10-Apr-12 2:48am

Do not dump.
what text you want to read exactly?

Santhosh Subramanian 10-Apr-12 2:58am

These are all the things within that html documents....
i need to extract the tags and get only the text to read from that....

A building project

Few people are committed to a building project.
They are discussing about ways and means to fund it.

Member 1: Well, girls there aren't many ways open to us to raise money at
the moment except, of course, asking for contributions.

Teacher: Teacher's are willing to donate Rs.5,000.00 from their side.

Member 2: We will collect some money from the people.

Member 3: Why not organise a magic show to raise money?

Member 1: Any more suggestions...

Member 4: How about distributing surprise prize coupons?

Member 1: Wonderful, if all of us work together, surely we will complete this project soon. Yea.

Santhosh Subramanian 10-Apr-12 2:52am

A building project

Few people are committed to a building project.
They are discussing about ways and means to fund it.

Member 1: Well, girls there aren't many ways open to us to raise money at
the moment except, of course, asking for contributions.

Teacher: Teacher's are willing to donate Rs.5,000.00 from their side.

Member 2: We will collect some money from the people.

Member 3: Why not organise a magic show to raise money?

Member 1: Any more suggestions...

Member 4: How about distributing surprise prize coupons?

Member 1: Wonderful, if all of us work together, surely we will complete this project soon. Yea.

Lakamraju Raghuram 10-Apr-12 2:55am

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2012-04-09T20:50:00

Solution 1

Read the following :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2113651/how-to-extract-text-from-resonably-sane-html[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56107/what-is-the-best-way-to-parse-html-in-c[^]

http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/[^]

Posted 9-Apr-12 20:50pm

Mehdi Gholam

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VJ Reddy 16-Apr-12 11:33am

Good links. 5!

Mehdi Gholam 16-Apr-12 14:18pm

Thanks VJ!

Omkar Kumar · Answer 2 · 2012-04-09T21:27:00

Using C# Code

C#

string htmlContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("Url of your html file");
lblOnlyText.Text = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(htmlContent, "<[^>]*>", "");

Using VB.Net Code

VB

Dim htmlContent As String = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("Url of your html file")
lblOnlyText.Text = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(htmlContent, "<[^>]*>", "")

vino2012 · Answer 3 · 2012-04-10T07:14:00

Use Jquery for getting your text content. All your needed content is in tag right.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
	var txt_con =$('span');
	var cont;

	for(var i=0;i<txt_con.length;i++)
	{
	cont=$("span:nth("+ i +")").html();
	alert(cont);
	}

});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div><span>Text1</span></div>
<table><tr><td><span>Text2</span></td></tr><tr><td><span>Text3</span></td></tr></table>
<div><span>Text4</span></div>
<div><span>Text5</span></div>
</body>
</html>

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