Stripping HTML tags from text files?

[Gwailo]

I was wondering if there was any simple utility, either graphical or Darwin, to strip HTML tags from an HTML (i.e., plaintext) file?

A perl utility would be best, since I do a lot of work remotely on the terminal.

TIA

 

[fddi1]

I'm sure there is a HTML parser module for perl. Try CPAN. You should be able to find one if not some.

 

[vertigo]

if all you want to do is strip the tags, you could do something like

$html =~ s/<.+>//g;

 

[Gwailo]

Originally posted by vertigo
if all you want to do is strip the tags, you could do something like

$html =~ s/<.+>//g;

That's very kind of you but I don't know how to implement this into a script, I know 0 perl...

 

[hazmat]

There's a utility call html2text on a NetBSD system I have an account on. I'm sure you could find it for Darwin.

 

[Gwailo]

While I'm still going to look for a darwin alternative, I figured out that I could probably just open my web page in IE and select Save as Plain Text That'll have to suffice for now, but thanks for all the hints guys!

 

[hazmat]

Here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=html2text . Looks like plenty of options.

 

[Gwailo]

Perfect thanks Hazmat