Fellow monks,

I have some input, let's call it @webpage_lines and I want to strip all of the HTML tags from it with as little effort as possible. (remembering of course that laziness is a programmer's virtue)

Relevant facts are;

• The combined size of $webpagelines[0 .. n] is a few thousand characters maximum.
• I don't care what the content looks like afterwards as long as all data outside of *any* tag (whether or not valid HTML to be safe) is included.
• I want this to be as simple as possible with as little code as possible, but I want to 100% sure that nothing remains that could be interpreted by a web-browser as a tag (from an innocent <br> to a malicious script)

At the moment I am doing this;

$page .= $_ for (@webpage_lines);
$page =~ s/<[^>]*>//;
[download]

Remembering that simplicity and size are paramount...
Should I be looking at some kind of HTML parser instead?
Is this an exremely slow solution because the size $page could become?
Is this code sufficient?
Any other thoughts about this problem?

Thanks for your input!
Neil

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