Hello Monks,

I have a string as shown below. I want to extract only the plain text and assign it to a scalar using HTML::Parser. How can this be done? 

$string = '<style>table{border-collapse: collapse;margin-left: 1cm;fon
+t-Family: courier;width: 60%}.hoverTable tr{background: #D8D8D8;} .ho
+verTable tr:hover{background-color: #ffff99; }</style><table border=2
+ class="hoverTable">[20160628_151916] <tr><td bgcolor="#366092"><font
+ color="White"> PLAIN TEXT TO BE EXTRACTED</td>';

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In reply to Remove html tags to obtain plain text by Mj1234

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and:  <code> code here </code>
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