Re: stripping HTML tags with Perl

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:33:53 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> said:

>>>>> "Viktor" == Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com> writes:
    SJT> <address default="<phb@example.com>">

    SJT> which may or may not be legal HTML.

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

    SJT> In the case above this leaves `">'.

s/<\/?(<[^>]*>|[^>])+>//g handles that... (not going for the best one)

Viktor