Removing HTML from text

[Bill H]

I am looking for a perl routine that will strip HTML from a text file
and allow me to setup exceptions. For example, remove all HTML except
<B> <I> <U> <P> and their close tags, and optionally (preferably)
clean up any <P> tags so that contain just <P ALIGN="LEFT"> (or right
or center).

Is there such a beast out there before I write my own code?

Bill H

 

[Ben Bullock]

I am looking for a perl routine that will strip HTML from a text file
and allow me to setup exceptions. For example, remove all HTML except
<B> <I> <U> <P> and their close tags, and optionally (preferably) clean
up any <P> tags so that contain just <P ALIGN="LEFT"> (or right or
center).

Is there such a beast out there before I write my own code?

The place to look is http://search.cpan.org/.

 

[Jürgen Exner]

I am looking for a perl routine that will strip HTML from a text file
and allow me to setup exceptions. For example, remove all HTML except

Your Question is Asked Frequently: perldoc -q "remove HTML"

<B> <I> <U> <P> and their close tags, and optionally (preferably)
clean up any <P> tags so that contain just <P ALIGN="LEFT"> (or right
or center).

You can define any custom action (remove or retain or whatever you like)
for any HTML element.

jue