Dave Navarro, Jr. (dave@powerbasic.com)
EXTRACT LINKS FROM TEXT FILE
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'This is a quick & dirty little utility I wrote to extract all of the links 
'in a text file and display them on the screen (redirectable).

FUNCTION PbMain()

   LOCAL htmlfile AS STRING
   LOCAL buffer   AS STRING
   LOCAL link     AS STRING
   LOCAL s        AS LONG
   LOCAL l        AS LONG

   htmlfile = TRIM$(COMMAND$)

   IF ISFALSE LEN(DIR$(htmlfile)) THEN
     PRINT "Error: "; htmlfile;" not found."
     EXIT FUNCTION
   END IF

   OPEN htmlfile FOR BINARY AS #1
     GET$ #1, LOF(1), buffer
   CLOSE #1

   STDOUT "File: " & htmlfile
   STDOUT ""

   s = 1
   DO
     REGEXPR "<a href=.+>.+</a>" IN buffer AT s TO s, l
     IF ISFALSE s THEN
       EXIT DO
     ELSE
       link = REMOVE$(MID$(buffer, s, l), ANY CHR$(13,10))
     END IF
     STDOUT link
     s = s + l
   LOOP

END FUNCTION