Re: Strip HTML from files in a directory

From: rob.dixon@xxxxxxx (Rob Dixon)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:57:50 +0000

bdy wrote:

Does anyone know if there's a way to use an HTML stripper in Perl to
scrub the HTML from all files in a specified directory? If so, would
you point me in the correct direction.

I would recommend something like

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($html);
print $tree->as_text;

but the details depend on your application.

HTH,

Rob
.

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