[PLUG] sed regex to strip html code

Wed Jul 3 21:07:54 UTC 2002

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Hudson <rob at euglug.net> writes:

Rob> This will do it too...
Rob>   perl -pi -e 's/<.*?>//g' file.html

For some meaning of "do" and "it".

It'll break on this:

        <!-- > this is still inside the comment, but won't get stripped
        < -->

Yes, that's all stuff that should be stripped.  Or try this:

        <div anything="foo>bar">

That will leave _ bar"> _ when it shouldn't.

This is a lot closer:

$ perl -MHTML::Parser -e 'HTML::Parser->new(text_h => [ sub { print @_ }, "dtext" ])->parse_file(\*STDIN)' <<\END

        <!-- > this is still inside the comment, but won't get stripped
        < -->
        And this is outside.  Here's <HTML entities> for you!
        <a href="foo">And here's a link</a>.

END

which generates:

        And this is outside.  Here's <HTML entities> for you!
        And here's a link.

Proper!

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