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Display first 1000 words from a long string (Stripping HTML)

Churchill A

Hi all,

I have a field in my database that holds input from an html input. So I have in my db column data. What I need is to be able to extract this and display a short version of it as an intro. Maybe even the first paragraph if possible.

I downloaded the Html Agility Pack for purposes of cleaning up html so now all I need is a function to count and return only the first 1000 words.

Thanks.

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
I don't know what "Html Agility Pack" is but you can probably use classes in the .Net Forms library. Look in this web site for articles; I know there are some, I wrote one; see Introduction to Web Site Scraping but look for other articles also.