[Ifile-discuss] Re: html tag stripping

[David Bushong]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:12:12AM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> * David Bushong:
> 
> > Well, even if people are filtering non-email through it, it doesn't
> > handle tagged input gracefully.  An option to do a simple, na??ve
> > tag-strip seems like a win to me.
> 
> have you thought about piping emails through "sed -E 's/<.+>//g'" to
> check if a naive approach suffices?  
> ...
>
It's not too hard to do with a preprocessor, but you want to do things like
skip headers, not go too far into large MIME files, etc.  All of these are 
things ifile is already doing; it seems a waste to redo them.  This just seems
like a feature that would be very handy to have in ifile, along the lines of
-a, -h, and -m.

--David Bushong