Create a string array of all comments in a html file...

[sophie_newbie]

Hi, I'm wondering how i'd go about extracting a string array of all
comments in a HTML file, HTML comments obviously taking the format
"<!-- Comment text here -->".

I'm fairly stumped on how to do this? Maybe using regular expressions?

Thanks.

[William James]

On Sep 30, 10:39 am, sophie_newbie <[e-mail]:

Hi, I'm wondering how i'd go about extracting a string array of all
comments in a HTML file, HTML comments obviously taking the format
"<!-- Comment text here -->".

I'm fairly stumped on how to do this? Maybe using regular expressions?

Thanks.

E:\Ruby>irb --prompt xmp
"<!-- Comment
here -->And <i>so</ifunny!
<p>It was a dark and stormy night.
</p><!-- Comment <-->".scan(/<!--.*?-->/m)
==>["<!-- Comment\nhere -->", "<!-- Comment <-->"]

[Paul McGuire]

On Sep 30, 10:39 am, sophie_newbie <[e-mail]:

Hi, I'm wondering how i'd go about extracting a string array of all
comments in a HTML file, HTML comments obviously taking the format
"<!-- Comment text here -->".

I'm fairly stumped on how to do this? Maybe using regular expressions?

Thanks.

>>from pyparsing import htmlComment
htmlComment.searchString("""<!-- Comment

.... here -->And <i>so</ifunny!
.... </p><!-- Comment <-->""").asList()
[['<!-- Comment \nhere -->'], ['<!-- Comment <-->']]

-- Paul

[Stefan Behnel]

sophie_newbie wrote:

Hi, I'm wondering how i'd go about extracting a string array of all
comments in a HTML file, HTML comments obviously taking the format
"<!-- Comment text here -->".

I'm fairly stumped on how to do this? Maybe using regular expressions?

from lxml import etree

parser = etree.HTMLParser()
tree = etree.parse("somefile.html", parser)

print tree.xpath("//comment()")
http://codespeak.net/lxml

Stefan