HTML to Plain Text

[prachi10]

Can anybody suggest how to remove html tags while displaying the output

consider code as
<b> name </b>

now i want to display output in perl as
name.


reply as soon as possible.....

[KevinADC]

if you don't need or want to go the full html parser route:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq9.htm...om-a-string%3F

but if you do:

http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/H...3.56/Parser.pm

[miller]

You basically have three options (and variations there of). Which method you choose depends on what the content of your html is, and what type of output that you want. Most likely, you'll use either method #1 or #3.

1) Remove Tags using a regular expression (Quick and Dirty) (Kevin's Suggestion #1)

Perl FAQ 9 - Removing HTML from String

2) HTML Parser - By tag parsing of html (Complicated and Verbose) (Kevin's Suggestion #2)

cpan HTML::Parser

3) HTML::FormatText - Generic Parsing of HTML to Plain Text

cpan HTML::FormatText

[prachi10]

Thks frds for yr replies,



My problem got solved by using follwing code line

$record=~s/<.*?>/ /g;

[miller]

Thks frds for yr replies,

My problem got solved by using follwing code line

$record=~s/<.*?>/ /g;

Well done.

That was the first method suggested in the FAQ link. Read the first paragraph (excerpted below) to make sure that you aren't overlooking anything if this is a repeated need:

Many folks attempt a simple-minded regular expression approach, like s/<.*?>//g, but that fails in many cases because the tags may continue over line breaks, they may contain quoted angle-brackets, or HTML comment may be present. Plus, folks forget to convert entities--like &lt; for example.