removing html tags:

[humaid]

hi guys,
i have a html doc,for which i want to remove the tags leaving only the text.can anyone help me out.

[numberwhun]

hi guys,
i have a html doc,for which i want to remove the tags leaving only the text.can anyone help me out.

It is always a good idea to look on CPAN before posting questions. Most of us are going to reference there for answers first as all of the Perl modules are stored there, and are searchable.

If you go to CPAN and type "remove html" into the search box, you will be presented with a link to HTML::Obliterate. Now, I don't know how well the module works, but its always worth a shot to try something that sounds like it will do what you want to.

Regards,

Jeff

[KevinADC]

Jeff,

A quick look at that modules source code is revealing:

sub remove_html_from_string {
    my($string) = @_;
    $string =~ s{ < \W* \w+ [^>]* > }{}xmsg;
    return $string;
}

So it's just using that one regexp to try and remove html tags. It probably works OK for the most part but is not a real html parser, like HTML::Parser is.