Re: stripping HTML tags with Perl

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:30:53PM -0800, Drew C. Poulin wrote:
> Simon Cozen

Who he? :)

> I'm getting my toes wet in Perl by trying to strip a file of some
> strings, including HTML tags.

# no Wheel::Reinvent;
use HTML::FormatText;
use HTML::Parse;

$html = parse_htmlfile("nd2");
$formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
$ascii = $formatter->format($html);

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