Just did this with the help of "Perl Cookbook" (this book is great).
Chapter 20.6 Extracting or Removing HTML tags
use HTML::Parse;
use HTML::FormatText;
$plain_text = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html($html_text));
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From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: converting html to text
I spent several hours last night trying to convert an html file
to text, so that I could include it in an email.
Someone from a mailing list sent me a simple perl script, which
worked for my purpose.
However, this script simply eleminates tables and lists.
I am wodering if there isn't a CPAN module already written.
Converting html to text seems like such a common task, that there
ought to be some robust scripts out there. Interestingly enough,
I found many scripts to convert html to rtf and LaTeX and every
other format, but not plain old text!
Paul
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