$message=s/<[^>]*>//g; And the rest could be done like this untested code: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use LWP::Simple; my $site = "http://chart.yahoo.com/d?a=3&b=1&c=2003&d=3&e=11&f=2003&g=d&s=crio"; my $message = get("$site"); if ($message) { $message =~ s/<[^>]*>//g; print $message; } else { print "Error, get did not work\n"; }