remove html to leave text

[ton de w]

Hello,

I am using DBI::msql to fetch some stuff.and then write it out as CSV
and it is picked up by openoffice.Calc
This works perfect - except one of the text fields includes html tags
as wella s useful text.
How can I strip out the html tags <b> etc etc and replace each tag
with a char of my choice?

TIA

Ton