strip HTML Tags with perl

Question

Whats the easiest way to strip the HTML tags in perl. I am using a regular expression to parse HTML from a URL which works great but how can I strip the HTML tags off?

Answer 1

Have a look at the HTML::Restrict module which allows you to strip away or restrict the HTML tags allowed. A minimal example that strips away all HTML tags:

use HTML::Restrict;

my $hr = HTML::Restrict->new();
my $processed = $hr->process('i am bold'); # returns 'i am bold'

I would recommend to stay away from HTML::Strip because it breaks utf8 encoding.