Remove all HTML tags

Hello,

Is there a perl module available, or a regex method, that will prase an HTML
formatted file then remove ALL the HTML elements so you end up with just the
text content of the file?

Any help/suggestions appreciated.

Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Re: Remove all HTML tags

On 11-05-18 09:02 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a perl module available, or a regex method, that will prase an
> HTML formatted file then remove ALL the HTML elements so you end up with
> just the text content of the file?
>
> Any help/suggestions appreciated.

HTML::TreeBuilder loads HTML::Element which has a method as_text(). Use
HTML::Element::look_down() to find the body, than use as_text()

http://search.cpan.org/~jfearn/HTML-Tree-4.2/lib/HTML/TreeBu ilder.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~jfearn/HTML-Tree-4.2/lib/HTML/Elemen t.pm


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Re: Remove all HTML tags

On Wed, 18 May 2011 09:13:20 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On 11-05-18 09:02 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
>> Is there a perl module available, or a regex method, that will prase a=
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>> HTML formatted file then remove ALL the HTML elements so you end up
>> with just the text content of the file?
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> HTML::TreeBuilder loads HTML::Element which has a method as_text(). Us=
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> HTML::Element::look_down() to find the body, than use as_text()
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> http://search.cpan.org/~jfearn/HTML-Tree-4.2/lib/HTML/TreeBu ilder.pm
> http://search.cpan.org/~jfearn/HTML-Tree-4.2/lib/HTML/Elemen t.pm

That's the answer I would give, I would just add to the OP that what you=20
think the text content of a page ought to be may not match what this=20
returns. Text without formatting runs together and for the majority of=20
pages produces a useless mess. Usually more complex parsing is called=20
for based on specific knowledge of the page. Although if all you want=20
the text content for is further machine processing like checksums,=20
concordance, or indexing, then this is fine.

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