Re: stripping HTML tags with Perl

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:50:45 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> said:

    SJT> You really want "<[^>]+>" (delete anything bracketed by "<>"
    SJT> containing some text which doesn't contain ">").  This avoids
    SJT> trashing the Pascal inequality test "<>" which is not a legal
    SJT> tag, but will fail miserably on stuff like

    SJT> <address default="<phb@example.com>">

    SJT> which may or may not be legal HTML.

So, use s/<\/?[^>]+>//g to get rid of all html tags

Viktor