Question

What is the most convenient way to remove all the HTML tags when using the SAS URL access method to read web pages?

Answer 1

This should do what you want. Removes everything between the <> including the <> and leaves just the content (aka innerHTML).

Data HTMLData;

filename INDEXIN URL "http://www.zug.com/";

input;

textline = _INFILE_;

/*-- Clear out the HTML text --*/
re1 = prxparse("s/<(.|\n)*?>//");
call prxchange(re1, -1, textline);

run;