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taking HTML coding into a new custom html file

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  • 25-01-2006 6:02pm
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    humaxf1
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭


    Hi all... (I'm not sure if this is the right section for this post)

    First of all, I'm no HTML guru and only know basic coding.

    My question is, I use Belarc Advisor which does an audit on a PC and creates a .bci file (associated to the program). When double clicked, a web browser opens with the results of the audit.

    Problem is, there is too much information and I wish to 'pluck' the sections I want and re-output them to a new html file.

    Any ideas on how I would do this? Scripting maybe? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thank you.


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    From your description I am assuming that a .bci file is simply a html file.

    My scripting language preference is perl. It is great for text processing.
    sed or awk might be alternatives (perl was inspired by both). What languages are you skilled in?

    If Belarc Advisor lets you select the amount of info output you might be able to minimise the amount of data the script has to go through.
    Does it allow you to save the output file as text?


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    humaxf1
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    Thanks for the reply...

    First off, I have no experience in any programming or coding languages, except for very basic html which I learned off a website.

    Now, Belarc Advisor outputs a set amount of information and as far as I know, this is not changeable. (i'm sure if you knew what you were doing, it could be customised). Anyway, after the PC is scanned - all hardware and software installed - a webpage is opened **automatically** displaying the information.

    If you go into the program files folder for belarc advisor, you will see a .bci file. As i said in previous post, when dbl clicked, the same web page opens.

    "Does it allow you to save the output file as text?" If you mean if Belarc advisor allows you, it doesn't! Its all automatic and opens the webpage.

    I have saved the webpage as a txt file, but when I open notepad, it's all over place with no formatting as in headings and titles all together with the specific info.

    I have included a screenshot of the webpage, but you may get a better idea of what goes on if you install http://www.belarc.com/Programs/advisor.exe for yourself.

    For now I am copying&pasting into Word, but I lose some of the text and layout formatting. It's not as easy to read as the webpage is.

    I'll read up on perl for the mo.

    thx.


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    bpmurray
    Registered Users Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    When you have your report in the browser, save the file as HTML, (Web Page , Complere or Web Page, HTML only). Note where you've saved the file. Now open Word, and open the saved HTML in Word.

    You now have a document that contains the entire report from before. You can edit it like any other Word doc, but when you save it, remember to save it as a Word Doc file, otherwise it'll save it as HTML again.


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Look in the address bar of your browser, that's the file. In my case it's...

    file:///D:/Program%20Files/Belarc/Advisor/System/tmp/(Tedcrilly).html

    ...which equates to...

    D:/Program Files/Belarc/Advisor/System/tmp/(Tedcrilly).html

    Now download and install Mozilla and open the file in Composer (or Editor, or whatever it's called these days).

    Don't mind Word, it's a heap of sh1t when it comes to HTML editing.

    adam


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